Museum blog

As our nights become longer, this October you can see Saturn at its best and brightest, a meteor shower originating from Halley’s Comet, and the Hunter’s Moon to put you in the mood for spooky season.

A toy that journeyed to the very bottom of the ocean has been donated to the National Maritime Museum.

Spot Neptune through a telescope, see the Moon in the Beehive Cluster, and mark the autumnal equinox and equilux.

This month brings a spectacular partial solar eclipse, a partial lunar eclipse, six planets lined up across the pre-dawn sky, and the year's best meteor shower.

This month Earth reaches its farthest point from the Sun, we look for a lunar crater named by the Artemis II crew, and a morning star cluster heralds in Matariki, the Māori new year.

Learn more about one of the world's leading airship pilots, Squadron Leader Thomas Philip York-Moore.

June brings short nights and spectacular skies - from noctilucent clouds to the first true views of the Milky Way's glowing core.