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.

Welcome • We’re on the cusp of an exciting new era of space stations

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LIFE ON THE EDGE • Milky Way outlier Terzan 12 is a glittering star field in this new Hubble image

OSIRIS-REx returns asteroid sample to Earth • The asteroid’s rock dust will reveal what our early Solar System was like

JWST traces carbon across worlds • The telescope’s observations are tracking the building blocks of life across the Galaxy

Huge star spied being eaten by black hole • Star is one of the largest ever witnessed being destroyed this way

Moon’s deep shadows are surprisingly young

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF

Youngest-ever galactic magnetic field spotted • Galaxies developed fields when they were just 2.5 billion years old

Neptune ‘spotted’ from the ground

Is another Earth-sized planet hiding in the Solar System? • A hypothetical Planet Nine in the distant Kuiper Belt could explain several observed oddities

A starless galaxy? • A potentially all-dark-matter galaxy has put astronomers on Cloud-9

INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT • Claire Davies from October’s Sky at Night Q&A special answers five questions she’s frequently asked about how stars and planets form

Looking back: The Sky at Night • 24 November 1976

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

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PICK OF THE MONTH

From moonwalk to catwalk? • Spacesuit design is moving into the realms of fashion, says Jonathan Powell

Exploring alien worlds with the JWST • The infrared observatory is delving deep into the atmospheres of every kind of exoplanet, as Ezzy Pearson finds out

Eyes on Earth • Our own Solar System highlights why planetary atmospheres are so important

Is there anybody out there? • Alien life could be waiting in the cosmos, but we need to learn enough to recognise it

Deep inside the Orion Nebula • The James Webb Space Telescope has taken the deepest ever image of this favourite of the autumn and winter skies

After the ISS • Approaching a quarter century in orbit, the International Space Station is nearer its end than its beginning. What comes next? Sean Blair finds out

What does the ISS smell like? • Unsurprisingly, it’s tricky to keep a continuously occupied space station smelling sweet

Space stations of the future • Once the ISS is deorbited, human access to low Earth orbit should go on uninterrupted. Various space stations are in development, starting with one already in flight

The Sky Guide • NOVEMBER 2023

NOVEMBER HIGHLIGHTS • Your guide to the night sky this month

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

DON’T MISS Lunar occultation of Venus

Jupiter moon events

Leonids 2023

PICK OF THE MONTH

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

MOONWATCH • November’s top lunar feature to observe

COMETS AND ASTEROIDS • Large, bright main-belt asteroid Melpomene is a binocular possibility

STAR OF THE MONTH • Navi, the...