The sky at night is magical, alluring and often bewildering—which is why this first section of this publication is all about helping you learn the basics. Starting with the stars themselves, we will explain how these points of light are categorized by astronomers, why they sometimes shimmer or twinkle and how to use the constellations as signposts to find your way around and locate the denizens of the deep sky: star clusters, nebulae and galaxies.

Sky at Night Magazine brings you The Apollo Story – your complete guide to the greatest journey in human history. The story begins with the disastrous fire that killed the crew of Apollo 1, continues through Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon, and ends as the cost of space exploration halted the programme at Apollo 17. Packed with all the facts, figures and stories from each and every Apollo mission, as well as rare photographs, this

Twenty-five years ago this month, the Hubble Space Telescope launched into Earth orbit and into the history books: it changed the way we view our place in space for ever. In this special edition of BBC Sky at Night Magazine, we celebrate the unparalleled clarity of Hubble’s greatest images. With 116 pages of stunning galleries, plus features on the science Hubble enabled, the daring maintenance missions and more, you’ll never see the Universe