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James Webb Space Telescope: a new era

More than 25 years and $10 billion in the making, the release of the first images from the James Webb

The Parker Solar Probe is a NASA mission designed to investigate the Sun’s outer corona. Launched in 2018, it will

The lure of the variables is strong. Variable star observers go out whenever the sky is clear to observe ‘their’

A plaque for the Maunders It gave me great pleasure to represent the Association at the unveiling of an English

The Open Data Institute (ODI) in London has unveiled a four-channel film installation by Artist in Residence Rohini Devasher, entitled

Mercury’s very thin atmosphere was first detected by the Mariner 10 spacecraft back in 1974. It consists of atoms captured

In the Journal’s Christmas Quiz, Marie-Louise Archer featured a question about the contributions to astronomy made by Mary Somerville. With

NEMETODE (NEtwork for MEteor Triangulation and Orbit Determination) was founded in 2012 by William Stewart (Ravensmoor, Cheshire) and Alex Pratt

Thank you to all who had a go at the Journal’s Christmas Quiz, the answers for which were in the

Melvyn Taylor, one of the Association’s most active visual observers, passed away in 2017 August. Last autumn Mark Simpson (a