• Galileo's spyglass
• The starry messenger
• Newton does it with mirrors
• The world's biggest telescope?
• Tycho Brahe's star castle
• A vital tool
• Star catcher
• Analysing light
• Seeing through cosmic dust
• Japanese star map
• Sorting galaxies
• Star-mapping spacecraft
• Mapping the cosmos
• Discovering pulsars
• A new kind of star
• Photography comes to astronomy
• Tracking sunspots
• Observing the Sun and Moon
• Discovering invisible light
• Stars on the radio
• Skimming X-rays
• Catching UV rays
• Viewing the violent cosmos
• Detecting violent cosmos
• Catching cosmic explosions
• Celestial sphere
• Silver stars
• Ptolemy's great book
• Copernicus changes the cosmos
• The book that led to Galileo's trial
• Kepler's astronomy
• Newton's system of the world
• An Earth-centred cosmos
• The telescope that found a planet
• The planet 'Herschell' on the map
• Our Solar System grows
• Music of the heavens
• By royal appointment
• Finding Pluto
• Life on Mars?
• Calling ET
• Planet hunter
• Exclusive: Lunar life
• A cracking good alien?
• Studying the Big Bang's echo
• Proving Einstein's relativity
• Testing Einstein
• Catching gravity's waves
• Searching for space-time ripples
• Searching for missing matter
• Lessons from the stars
• Ancestral inspiration
• Timekeeping in Egypt
• Improving the calendar
• Jaipur’s giant observatory
• The clock of the Sun
• Night-time
• Precision star-tracking
• Skywatching at sea
• Calculating longitude
• Location, location
• Casting horoscopes
• Astrology in Tibet
• Astrology for kings
• Solar System projector
• The first screen stars
• Patrick Moore's inspiration
• Cover story
• How Stephen Hawking communicates
• Astronomy bestseller
• Astronomy in the classroom
• Cosmic cards
• A universal game
• World in miniature
• The comet fan club
• Tulip or telescope?
• Do it yourself
• Viewing the 1927 eclipse
• Last eclipse of the century
• Cleaning up after the eclipse
• Have a lovely (dark) time