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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

Saturn’s New South-Pole Decagon Turns Planetary Weather Into Living Geometry

Saturn’s New South-Pole Decagon Turns Planetary Weather Into Living Geometry

A fresh set of Hubble observations has revealed something wonderfully unexpected on Saturn: a giant 10-sided wave circli...

NASA’s Roman Telescope Has Launched—and It’s Ready to Turn the Sky Wide Open

NASA’s Roman Telescope Has Launched—and It’s Ready to Turn the Sky Wide Open

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has begun its journey with a fresh kind of promise: not just deeper views, but...

NASA’s Fresh Moon Crater Photos Turn a Tiny Mark Into a Big Science Lesson

NASA’s Fresh Moon Crater Photos Turn a Tiny Mark Into a Big Science Lesson

A new set of lunar images shows how much detail modern spacecraft can pull from a very small patch of the Moon. With a 6...

NASA’s Tarantula Nebula Mosaic Turns a Star Nursery Into a Color Map of Wonder

NASA’s Tarantula Nebula Mosaic Turns a Star Nursery Into a Color Map of Wonder

A new August 2026 image of the Tarantula Nebula layers data from Chandra, Webb, and Hubble to show not just beauty, but...

How August’s Total Solar Eclipse Turned the Sky Into a Shared Science Show

How August’s Total Solar Eclipse Turned the Sky Into a Shared Science Show

A summer evening eclipse turned Europe’s sky into a shared science celebration on 12 August 2026. From Spain’s two-minut...

Meet S301, the Milky Way’s Fastest Star — and Why Its Orbit Is Such a Gift to Science

Meet S301, the Milky Way’s Fastest Star — and Why Its Orbit Is Such a Gift to Science

A newly tracked star named S301 is racing around the Milky Way’s central black hole at 25,000 kilometres per second. Its...

The Moon Has a New 18-Metre Scar — and It’s Teaching Scientists How to Read Fresh Craters

The Moon Has a New 18-Metre Scar — and It’s Teaching Scientists How to Read Fresh Craters

A Falcon 9 upper stage left a fresh crater on the Moon on 5 August 2026, and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter quickly...

Hubble Just Opened a Brighter First Chapter of the Milky Way’s Story

Hubble Just Opened a Brighter First Chapter of the Milky Way’s Story

Hubble’s newest Milky Way result turns ancient globular clusters into cosmic keepsakes. By reading 39 of them, astronome...

Europe’s 2026 Total Eclipse Didn’t End at Totality — Proba-3 Keeps the Sun’s Halo in View

Europe’s 2026 Total Eclipse Didn’t End at Totality — Proba-3 Keeps the Sun’s Halo in View

The 12 August 2026 total solar eclipse gave Europe a rare shared moment of wonder. Now ESA’s Proba-3 mission is showing...

August’s Sky Has Perfect Timing This Year: Perseids, Bright Venus, and a Copper-Shadow Moon

August’s Sky Has Perfect Timing This Year: Perseids, Bright Venus, and a Copper-Shadow Moon

August 2026 is giving skywatchers an unusually graceful sequence: the Perseid meteor shower under a New Moon, Venus glow...

Webb Finds Dust and Water Thriving Beside the Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole

Webb Finds Dust and Water Thriving Beside the Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole

Webb’s new look at IRS 3 shows oxygen-rich dust and a clear water signal surviving astonishingly close to the Milky Way’...

Webb’s Lion Nebula Makes a Dying Star Feel Wonderfully Alive

Webb’s Lion Nebula Makes a Dying Star Feel Wonderfully Alive

NASA and ESA’s new Webb view of NGC 2392 turns a short-lived planetary nebula into one of August’s most joyful space sto...