BBC Sky at Night Magazine  |  October 2020
Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year: See the winners of 2020’s competition | Meet the Milky Way's neighbours this autumn: Take a tour of our local galactic group | Rare targets: Discover the hidden highlights of the dark-sky season | Crumbling comets: Why some are a spectacle while others break up and fade | Cassiopeia's giant: 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 | PLUS Extra online: NASA’s Jose Siles discusses the 2.5m scope that will study the galaxy from a helium balloon | Watch The Sky at Night: the episode looking back over 50 years of the BBC’s Mars coverage | Watch the virtual planetarium, a video guide to the month’s top night sky sights.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in BBC Sky at Night Magazine October 2020.