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Betelgeuse is now of those familiar stars that are easy to find in the sky, with a distinctive colour and some superlative statistics. And over the past few years, it has been adding to its celebrity status with come rapid changes in brightness, incl…

It’s an electric issue this time, featuring the RAS’s James Dungey Lecturer writing about atmospheric electricity on Earth and other planets. Alongside this treat, we eavesdrop on historians of astronomy discussing the challenge of preserving the her…

The Early Career Network has got off to a flying start since 2020, despite the pandemic. In this issue you can find out about research by early career network members, read about a panel event focused on postgraduate research and check…

The February issue of A&G has now been published online. The cover is inspired by Celestial Incantations, a new album from an arts and science collaboration. You can also read about the search for the Winchcombe meteorite and the new RAS journal,…

  × Please note: This article appears in full on A&G Online. Please go here to view. Beam dress, 2013, uses reflective materials and wiring. Image Credit: H Schell Artist Helen Schell uses creativity and craft to give anoth…

× Please note: This article appears in full on A&G Online. Please go here to view. Oil drop experiment from the University of Queensland, started in 1927 Image Credit: C S Cockell What do you do if your scientific questions deman…

  × Please note: This article appears in full on A&G Online. Please go here to view. Cygnus A in radio (red) and X-ray (blue) Image Credit: NASA/CXC Chandra has been a game-changing Great Observatory for NASA. Launched in 1…

The final issue for 2019 has a mixture of looking back – to the press furore over general relativity in 1919, and to Chandra’s 20 years in orbit – and looking forward – to the fruitful future for small-telescope surveys and seriously l…

  From left: Felix Denton, Becky Byers, Nigel Meredith and Diana Scarborough. Costumes: Izzie Byers. Image Credit: Eileen Haring Woods ‘Sounds of space’ combines plasma wave science with music, dance, film and gaming to develop…

Zombie Worlds poster, celebrating the first exoplanets, discovered orbiting pulsars Image Credit: NASA Exoplanets may be scientific heaven for researchers, but NASA is highlighting their hellish side for Halloween this year with som…

× Please note: This article appears in full on A&G Online. Please go here to view. Article Main Body Location of the 24 September earthquake Image Credit: Pakistan meteorological service An earthquake has damaged Khari Shareef in…

× Please note: This article appears in full on A&G Online. Please go here to view. Pluto came into focus in 2015 when NASA's spacecraft New Horizons sent back images showing a surprisingly complex icy surface. Now its landscape has names, as…