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 • Discover why cosmic carnage is good news for astronomers

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NOVEMBER HIGHLIGHTS

STAR INCUBATOR • Deep in its core, the bar in this galaxy is generating stars at breakneck speed

At last: an explanation for the Wow! Signal • Rather than an alien communiqué, the signal was from a cosmic cloud

First private spacewalk makes history • The mission tested a new spacesuit and broke multiple records

Dark matter helps black holes grow • The mysterious substance could prevent gas clouds from collapsing too quickly

An asteroid's impact on Ganymede • Aftershocks from a colossal strike may have tilted the orbit of Jupiter's biggest moon

First human-made meteor shower predicted • Dust grains from the DART asteroid impact could reach Earth as meteors

The North Star gives up its secrets • New observations of Polaris reveal more details than ever, including a mottled surface

Mars rover begins its long climb • The Perseverance rover has a steep journey ahead out of Jezero Crater

When meteor showers attack • Forecasters are trying to pin down which comet debris poses a threat to us

Picking cosmic blueberries • Small 'Blueberry' galaxies close to home could help astronomers understand distant Green Peas

INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT • Following October's special Sky at Night Question Time episode, Raman Prinja, an expert in the biggest stars in the Universe, joins us to answer some of your top questions about massive stars

Looking back: The Sky at Night • 17 November 1971

The Sky at Night NOVEMBER

INTERACTIVE

BBC Sky at Night

Up close with extraordinary • Michael Warner opens one of the UK's largest private collections of space artefacts

THE CATACLYSMIC UNIVERSE • From giant explosions to calamitous collisions, astronomers love to observe when things go bang. Caroline Harper explains the fascination

Tremors in the fabric of time • When things in space go bang, we can feel the ripples

The Biggest Bang – this time on Earth • Particle accelerators allow us to replicate the greatest cataclysm of them all

DARK MATTER ON TRIAL • It underpins our entire understanding of the Universe, but we have no idea what dark matter is. Colin Stuart sifts the guesswork from the evidence surrounding this mysterious substance

Mapping the invisible Universe • How can we pin down where dark matter is when we can't even see it?

Tracking down dark matter • Hidden deep underground, experiments are scouring the cosmos for the missing matter

Where is the Solar System's WATER? • Hidden under the crusts of icy moons lies multiple planets' worth of liquid water

The Sky Guide NOVEMBER 2024 TITAN SHADOW TRANSITS • As Saturn approaches a ring-plane crossing in March 2025, see Titan's shadow move across the planet's disc

NOVEMBER 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 November

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 • Follow 11 Parthenope as it reaches...