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Interesting new sungrazing comet discovered

Update 2024-10-01. The comet has been designated C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) on MPEC 2024-T22 and the section image gallery is here.

The International Astronomical Union’s 100 Hours of Astronomy global event will be held 2-5 October this year with the aim

It is always dangerous to count cometary chickens before they are hatched but it really does look as if we

In the Minor Planet Bulletin 51-3 p.212, Richard Binzel sent out a call for observations to assist with the targetting

At 06:39 UT on 4 September, the Catalina Sky Survey detected an asteroid on a possible collision course with the

The August 2024 issue of Messenger (No. 15), the newsletter of the Mercury and Venus Section, is now published online

August has finally brought dark skies again – and even a few clear nights. Last night of the month (31

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T CrB is one of 10 known galactic recurrent novae and was observed in eruption in 1866 and 1946. The

(Image by Dave Tyler) A lunar occultation of any of the bright planets is an interesting event to watch even