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Dr Patricia Fara tells the story of Caroline Herschel, concert soprano turned astronomer, unkindly caricatured in Georgian times as ‘The Female Philosopher, smelling out the Comet’.

Daniel Belteki reports on a decorative, but otherwise unsuccessful, interlude in the printing of a Royal Society journal.

Watch the skies! On Asteroid Day, Jon Bushell takes a look at the early years of asteroid spotting and the risks to human life of a major impact.

Following the news that the first image of a black hole has been captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, Ginny Mills looks back to a 1783 paper in our archives which proposes their existence.