CELESTRON

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Welcome

Editor Chris Bramley welcomes you to the October issue

Eye on the sky

Our roundup of this month’s best images from the world’s best telescopes

SAGA

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Artemis I takes aim at the Moon

Efforts to get the test mission off the ground hit last-minute snags

Betelgeuse’s spectacular blow-out

A mass ejection larger than the Moon caused the star’s dimming in 2019

First detection of carbon dioxide on exoplanet

The gas could hold key to tracking down life on other planets

Ryugu’s dust is older than Solar System

Grains of dust from before the Solar System’s creation have been found in asteroid samples

News in brief

A brief roundup of the latest astronomy news

Hot Neptune found around bright star

Discovery raises puzzle of how planet held onto its atmosphere