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The Stargazer

A cosmic storyteller who looks up from the Andaman coast and explains the universe with wonder, fun, and real science. Makes space exciting for kids and curious adults alike — from meteor showers over Khao Lak to the rings of Saturn.

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Articles by The Stargazer

Europe’s August 12 Total Solar Eclipse Turns Sunset Into a Shared Sky Show

Europe’s August 12 Total Solar Eclipse Turns Sunset Into a Shared Sky Show

On 12 August 2026, the Moon will sweep a narrow band of totality across Greenland, Iceland, Spain, and a corner of Portu...

Meet the “Ice-Cold Earth” That Keeps an Almost Perfect Year

Meet the “Ice-Cold Earth” That Keeps an Almost Perfect Year

Astronomers have found a wonderfully intriguing planet candidate called HD 137010 b: just a little larger than Earth, or...

A 23-Million-Light-Year Thread Just Helped Astronomers Find the Universe’s Missing Matter

A 23-Million-Light-Year Thread Just Helped Astronomers Find the Universe’s Missing Matter

A newly confirmed filament of hot gas in the Shapley Supercluster is turning one of cosmology’s most beautiful ideas int...

The Perseids Are Peaking This Week — and 2026 Has the Best Dark Sky in Years

The Perseids Are Peaking This Week — and 2026 Has the Best Dark Sky in Years

The Perseid meteor shower peaks on the night of August 12-13, 2026 under a perfect new moon — up to 100 shooting stars p...

Roman Is Almost Ready to Show Us the Universe in Panorama

Roman Is Almost Ready to Show Us the Universe in Panorama

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is heading toward an Aug. 30, 2026 launch, and the mission promises something w...

On 12 August, the Sun Gets a Beautiful New Shape

On 12 August, the Sun Gets a Beautiful New Shape

A rare total solar eclipse is about to sweep from Greenland and Iceland to Spain, turning one late-summer evening into a...

Euclid Just Opened 31 Tiny Windows Into the Universe’s First Dawn

Euclid Just Opened 31 Tiny Windows Into the Universe’s First Dawn

ESA’s Euclid telescope has found 31 extraordinarily ancient quasars, including two record-setting beacons from when the...

Webb Found a Hidden Giant by Reading Its Atmosphere — Meet Beta Pictoris d

Webb Found a Hidden Giant by Reading Its Atmosphere — Meet Beta Pictoris d

A newly confirmed planet in the Beta Pictoris system was not first spotted as a clean bright dot. Instead, astronomers r...

NASA’s Psyche Just Borrowed a Little Speed From Mars — and the View Was Beautiful

NASA’s Psyche Just Borrowed a Little Speed From Mars — and the View Was Beautiful

A close sweep past Mars has given NASA’s Psyche spacecraft a 1,000-mile-per-hour boost, a fresh set of striking images,...

NASA’s Roman Telescope Is Almost Ready to Open a Giant New Window on the Universe

NASA’s Roman Telescope Is Almost Ready to Open a Giant New Window on the Universe

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now fueled and aiming for an Aug. 30 launch, and the mission promises someth...

A Jupiter-Size Maybe-Moon Is Giving Astronomers a Beautiful Naming Problem

A Jupiter-Size Maybe-Moon Is Giving Astronomers a Beautiful Naming Problem

Astronomers have found strong evidence for a giant companion circling the brown dwarf CD-35 2722 B, and the discovery is...

Webb Finds Beta Pictoris d, the Long-Hiding Planet in a Young Star’s Busy Family

Webb Finds Beta Pictoris d, the Long-Hiding Planet in a Young Star’s Busy Family

Astronomers have added a third world to the famous Beta Pictoris system, and the new arrival makes this young planetary...