News in brief

A brief roundup of the latest astronomy news

BepiColombo’s first images of Mercury

The mission will have five more flybys before entering orbit

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Cutting Edge: Lewis Dartnell

Getting under Europa’s skin

Cutting Edge: Chris Lintott

Measuring the mass of the Milky Way

Inside the Sky at Night

Neptune and Uranus could help solve the mysteries of planet formation

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Emails – Letters – Tweets – Facebook – Instagram – Kit questions

What’s on

We pick the best live and virtual astronomy events and resources this month

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Field of view: Space inventions that didn’t quite take off

An airship on Venus? Jonathan Powell looks at space travel’s stranger concepts