BBC Sky at Night Magazine - 12 Aug 2025
RUBIN RISING
THE STAR CATALOGUES EVERY ASTRONOMER SHOULD KNOW
NASA’S JUNO MISSION NEARS ITS END AT JUPITER
A NEW WAY TO FIND THE MILKY WAY’S MISSING BLACK HOLES
MISPRINT OR MYOPIA? THE MYSTERY OF MESSIER 102
REVIEWED: STELLAMIRA’S 4-ELEMENT REFRACTOR
20 years in the making: it’s time for the Rubin revolution!
Sky at Night – lots of ways to enjoy the night sky…
Inside the Vera C Rubin Observatory
Eclipse España: One country, three years, three eclipses
Juno: the mission that rewrote the story of Jupiter
StellaMira 86mm ED f/7 quadruplet refractor
The mystery of Messier 102
Skills for stargazers: how to guide your gear with PHD2
Charting the heavens
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Explainer: making a planet
The Sky Guide challenge
September’s all-sky chart
Inside The Sky at Night
September at a glance
Comets and asteroids
Q&A: an astrophysicist
Cutting edge
Star of the month
Deep-sky tour
Binocular tour
The big three
Eye on the sky
Field of view
Moonwatch
The planets
Processing
Interactive
Highlights
Capture
Bulletin
Gallery
Books
Gear
Interview with a Rubin astronomer
This month’s contributors
The Virtual Planetarium
Take on the Messier Catalogue marathon
Your best images of the Universe
THE STUFF OF LEGENDS
THE STUFF OF LEGENDS
Cluster buster
Taurean trio
◁ Paw visibility
Double whammy
Ancient interstellar object detected
Comment
JWST captures possible Saturn-sized exoplanet
Astronomers find Universe’s missing matter
Citizen scientists catch star exploding in real time
First light for Vera Rubin Observatory
Earth may be at the centre of a huge void
Ice in space isn’t so alien after all
Starburst galaxy outshines Milky Way
Saturn’s ring has space rainbows
Lone black holes may finally break cover
INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT
The Expanding Universe
Smartphone meets Uranus
Lucky streak
Tweet
Surprise fly-by
Farewell, Big John
SOCIETY IN FOCUS
Now you see it…
Instagram
Joint effort
One sky – then, now and forever
Inside the Vera C Rubin Observatory
Taming a data mountain
Q&A with Alan Strauss
JUNO
Destination: Jupiter
Killer magnetism
How to make a planet
When other worlds fall to Earth
Set sail for an unforgettable eclipse adventure
MOONRISE ECLIPSE
THE GREAT SATELLITE HUNT
About the writers
Red light friendly
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SEPTEMBER HIGHLIGHTS
NEED TO KNOW
Family stargazing
GETTING STARTED IN ASTRONOMY
Total lunar eclipse as the Moon rises
Lunar occultation of Venus
Jupiter moon events
Saturn
The planets in September
JUPITER’S MOONS: SEPTEMBER
THE NIGHT SKY – SEPTEMBER
THE NIGHT SKY – SEPTEMBER
September’s top lunar feature to observe
Lubiniezky
STAR OF THE MONTH
Comet C/2024 E1 arrives from the distant Oort cloud
Swing your binos to Aquarius to find clusters and nebulae, plus a bonus asteroid
Find as many of the Solar System’s moons as your optics – and skies – will allow
DEEP-SKY TOUR
How the Sky Guide events will appear in September
Eclipse España
Eclipse by day — shooting stars by night
On the totality trail
The mystery of Messier 102
Charting heavens the
Keeping track of your epoch
The future is already here
How to guide your gear with PHD2
What you’ll need
Step by step
Shoot a rising lunar eclipse
Step by step
Fix contrast extremes in your Moon shots
3 QUICK TIPS
△ The Clamshell Nebula
△ Star trails
The Spanish Dancer Galaxy ▷
◁ The Bubble Nebula
△ Moonrise
NGC 7822 ▷
◁ IC 4633
◁ The Teddy Bear Nebula
Markarian’s Chain ▷
△ M21
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