You can learn how to find your way around the night sky, with a little patience and some help from a planisphere.
Human beings have been astronomers for at least 100,000 years. We look at a few amateur astronomers and their discoveries.
What is a constellation, how many constellations are there, and how are constellations different to the zodiac?
The Milky Way is about 13 billion years old. Our home in the cosmos is a large spiral galaxy, about 100,000 light-years across, and is also home to at least 100 billion stars.
Deep-sky objects are often either faintly visible to the naked eye, or visible through a pair of binoculars and a small telescope Read on for our must-see deep sky objects for stargazing beginners.
Late-autumn through to early-spring is the best time of year for observing the Milky Way in the Southern Hemisphere.
