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A special membership offer for new BAA members

2017 Mar 27

Your last opportunity to see the Moon and Venus together in this evening apparition of the planet

Dominic Ford, 2017 Feb 27

Mars and Uranus sidle up to each other in the evening sky

Stewart Moore, 2017 Feb 21

Fragment shining 10x brighter than main comet

Richard Miles, 2017 Feb 11

Why not try your hand at observing this rare event?

Jeremy Shears, 2017 Feb 06

Asteroid 2017 BH30 passes to within 45,480 km of us

Richard Miles, 2017 Jan 30

Show your neighbours the space station

Stewart Moore, 2017 Jan 25

John Mason/Nick James, 2017 Jan 21

The prestigious natural science journal, Nature has just started a new publication entitled Nature Astronomy.

Richard Miles, 2017 Jan 06

A close conjunction between Mars and Neptune

Stewart Moore, 2016 Dec 23

Test your knowledge, or pit your wits against friends at your local astronomical society with our Christmas quiz!

2016 Dec 19

Marc Delcroix reports that he detected the epsilon ring of Uranus with a 1m telescope and an ASI120MM camera

David Arditti, 2016 Dec 17