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Recent close pass of Apollo asteroid 2025 EF4 spied

An object measuring some 30-70 m across was discovered on an Earth-approaching course on 2025 March 11 by Santel Observatory,

Surprisingly February has not been the worst month for observing yet, this winter, at least from Orkney. Though pickings have

The 2025 February issue of Messenger (No. 16), the newsletter of the Mercury and Venus Section is now published online

Well, although now having roundly failed my New Year resolution, I will try to pick things up for the rest

National Astronomy Week runs from 1 – 9 February and the theme is Chasing the Moon across the sky through

As I write this on January 14, the comet has survived perihelion and it has developed a spectacular tail which

I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas and a good New Year. Maybe Santa brought an astro-goodie to keep

The 6.5-m James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the pre-eminent space observatory of our times, and just 7 months into

Roy Panther famously discovered a comet on Christmas Day in 1980 (C/1980 Y2 or 1980u) his observing log merely noted

C/2024 G3 was discovered by the ATLAS survey on 2024 April 5 using a 0.5-m, f/2 Schmidt at Rio Hurtado,