BBC Sky at Night

Sky at Night magazine is your practical guide to astronomy. Each issue features the world’s biggest and best night sky guide complete with star charts, observing tutorials and in-depth equipment reviews to ensure that amateur astronomers never miss those must-see events.

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A DATE WITH DESTINY • A tiny dwarf galaxy is inexorably drawn into the grasp of a double-ringed giant in this spectacular new portrait

BULLETIN • The latest astronomy and space news, written by Ezzy Pearson

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NEWS IN BRIEF

CUTTING EDGE • Our experts examine the hottest new research

INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT • The Sky at Night TV show, past, present and future

Looking back: The Sky at Night • 10 July 1974

The Sky at Night JULY

A 99 leaves Neil wanting Moore

INTERACTIVE • Emails – Letters – Tweets – Facebook – Instagram – Kit questions

SCOPE DOCTOR • Our equipment specialist cures your optical ailments and technical maladies With Steve Richards

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WHAT’S ON • We pick the best live and virtual astronomy events and resources this month

LIVE & ONLINE Bluedot 2022 • Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, 21-24 July

FIELD OF VIEW • The amateur astronomer’s forum

From city lights to deep space • In this second part of a series that looks at urban stargazing through four seasons, Rod Mollise reveals the wonders you can discover in the summer night sky...

Where are all the aliens? ROSWELL AT 75 • Nick Pope Looks at back at the most famous UFO story of aLL, and why more people are reporting strange sights in the sky

The UK’s X-Files? • The British government once played its own part in investigating strange objects in the night sky

The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence • Franck Marchis of the SETI Institute reveals how scientists search for intelligent Life beyond Earth

VENUS in a new light • Has the Parker Solar Probe solved the mystery of the Ashen Light? Paul G. Abel assesses the evidence

The Sky Guide

JULY HIGHLIGHTS • Your guide to the night sky this month

NEED TO KNOW • The terms and symbols used in The Sky Guide

THE BIG THREE • The top sights to observe or image this month

THE PLANETS • Our celestial neighbourhood in July

JUPITER’S MOONS: JULY

THE NIGHT SKY – JULY • Explore the celestial sphere with our Northern Hemisphere all-sky chart

MOONWATCH • July’s top Lunar feature to observe

COMETS AND ASTEROIDS • Asteroid 9 Metis wiLL brighten favourably over the course of the month

STAR OF THE MONTH • Kaus Meridionalis, a bow star of Sagittarius

BINOCULAR TOUR • Our roundup of wide-field gems includes the Summer Beehive and Barnard’s Star

THE SKY GUIDE CHALLENGE • Can you observe and capture the distant dwarf planet Pluto throughout the month?

DEEP-SKY TOUR • This month we take in sights in the middle of the constellation of Aquila, the Eagle

AT A GLANCE • How the Sky Guide events wiLL appear in July

Close up on THE SUN • Together, Solar Orbiter and the Parker Solar Probe are giving us our closest ever look at the Sun. With both now in their science phases, Ezzy Pearson updates us on what we’ve already learned and what’s still to come

Parker Solar Probe vs Solar Orbiter • How do the two spacecraft measure up?

The many eyes observing the Sun • A few of the dozens of other solar observatories helping to put the...