BBC Sky at Night Magazine - 14 Nov 2024
OUR PLACE IN SPACE
HOW I FOUND NADIR CRATER WAS RELATED TO THE DINOSAUR KILLER
IS THERE LIFE ON VENUS? THE SEARCH CONTINUES
SMART TELESCOPES: THE COMPLETE USER’S GUIDE
ON TEST: RVO’S NEW DOBSONIAN TELESCOPES
THE TECH THAT COULD TERRAFORM MARS
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Q&A: an impact investigator
The Sky Guide challenge
December’s all-sky chart
Inside The Sky at Night
December at a glance
Comets and asteroids
Skills for stargazers
Star of the month
Deep-sky tour
Binocular tour
The big three
Eye on the sky
Cutting edge C
Field of view
Moonwatch
The planets
Interactive
Processing
Highlights
Explainer
Capture
Bulletin
Gallery
Books
Gear
DECEMBER HIGHLIGHTS
This month’s contributors
The Virtual Planetarium
A ROSETTE BY ANY OTHER NAME
◁ Heading our way
Is it a bird? ▷
△ Super star cluster
△ Jelly on a plate
Earth-like planet survives its star’s death
Comment
Missing Martian atmosphere lies locked away
Starship caught with ‘chopsticks’
Asteroid may have helped early life flourish
Cosmological constant still in conflict
Tiny planet found around nearby star
Infrared reveals Milky Way in amazing detail
How to grow a black hole
Solar System
Looking back: The Sky at Night
Mountain view
A comet encounter
Old school, still cool
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SOCIETY IN FOCUS
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When ships were steered by starlight
The glittering lights of midwinter
Our place in SPACE
Rocks, dust and hunks of junk
Space weather
Electromagnetic radiation
Wildlife and the night sky
Gravitational pull
Cosmic rays and ghostly neutrinos
Human perspective
Jupiter’s Galilean moons
Jupiter moon watching
LUNAR OCCULTATION OF MARS
MOONLIGHT METEOR HUNT
About the writers
WINTER WONDERS
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Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS
The planets in December
Jupiter
Mercury
Venus
Mars
JUPITER’S MOONS: DECEMBER
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
When to use this chart
Lunar phases in December
Phocylides
Betelgeuse, Orion’s blazing orange star
Watch Eunomia brush past the Cheshire Cat’s smile
THE SKY GUIDE CHALLENGE
DEEP-SKY TOUR
Smart telescopes
Choosing a smart scope
Your first smart scope targets
Is there life on VENUS?
Phosphine – a sign of life?
Venus’s past
How to observe a supernova
What you’ll need
Step by step
A daylight lunar occultation of Mars
Step by step
Albedo features on Mercury
3 QUICK TIPS
PHOTO OF THE MONTH
△ The Triangulum Galaxy
△ Aurora over Great Chishill
△ The Moon and Saturn
◁ Rho Ophiuchi
▽Come tC /2023 A 3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)
△ The Witch’s Broom Nebula
◁ The Milky Way over Stonehenge
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) ▷
△ NGC 4535 and NGC 4526
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