TAKE A TOUR OF OUR LOCAL GALACTIC GROUP Meet the Milky Way's neighbours this autumn

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Sky at Night

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MARS AT ITS BEST

RARE TARGETS

Make the most of Mars's amazing opposition with our week by week observing guide

Discover thehidden highlights of the dark-sky season

CRUMBLING

COMETS Why some are a spectacle while others break up and fade

SEE THE WINNERS

CASSIOPEIA'SGIANT Find the star that's 450 times the size of the Sun

BIG DISH'S BIG DATE Tim O'Brien on Jodrell Bank's 75th anniversary

SUPERNOVA SURPLUS The galaxies brimming with stellar explosions