Tagged
4 stories tagged Skywatching
A summer evening eclipse turned Europe’s sky into a shared science celebration on 12 August 2026. From Spain’s two-minute totality to NASA’s research jet and balloon teams, the event showed how wonder and hard data can shine together.
August 2026 is giving skywatchers an unusually graceful sequence: the Perseid meteor shower under a New Moon, Venus glowing at its widest evening stretch from the Sun, and a deep partial lunar eclipse to close the month. Here’s the simple, joyful field guide to when to look up and what makes each moment special.
On 12 August 2026, the Moon will sweep a narrow band of totality across Greenland, Iceland, Spain, and a corner of Portugal. With live streams, family-friendly science, and a sunset finale over Europe, this is one of the year’s happiest reasons to look up.
NASA’s July 2026 skywatching guide gives Andaman families a lovely reason to look up: dark-moon Milky Way nights, a predawn Moon-and-planets meetup, and Saturn’s rings appearing delightfully thin through a telescope.
Choose what we may store on your device. You can change this at any time from the footer.
Necessary
Sign-in, cart, checkout and security. These are required for the site to work and cannot be switched off.
Analytics
Anonymous statistics on which pages and pieces are viewed, so we can improve the shop and the exhibition pages.
Functional
Embedded Google Maps on the Visit and Home pages. Google receives your IP address and may set its own cookies.
