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#192 MAY 2021

Sky at Night

THE UK’S BEST SELLING ASTRONOMY MAGAZINE TH S NG AS NOM M Z E

A NIGHTNIGHT ONON THETHE

COASTCOAST

Discover a new perspective on the night sky down at the seashore

MERCURY'SCRESCENT

Can you spot surface shading on the smallest planet?

LIKE SUGAR ON

BLACK VELVET A guide to observing the season's most captivating globular clusters

7 STEPS TO A HABITABLEPLANET Key features of planet Earth that could steer the search for alien life

THE GREAT DEBATE The public talk 100 years ago that transformed cosmology

WINCHCOMBE METEOR The historic find's trip

from driveway to lab

COSMIC SPRING CLEAN Solving the riddle of the

missing space dust

MAKE AN ECLIPSE MODEL A family friendly project to

show shadows in space