BBC Sky at Night Magazine  |  May 2020
When is the next great comet? The greatest apparitions of the past 150 years, and see two comets this month | Farewell Evening Star: Your last chance to see Venus at night | 800 not out: Marking The Sky at Night’s milestone episode and new record | Coronavirus update: The space missions affected by the shutdown | Better together: 2020’s top conjunctions as still to come | Big Binoculars: Orion’s new binos & easy to use mount tested | PLUS Extra online: NASA scientist on the latest in the search for life in the oceans of icy moons | Listen to chapters from Outer Space by Bob McDonald | Watch the new-look virtual planetarium, a video guide month’s top night sky sights.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in BBC Sky at Night Magazine May 2020.