ALT A glowing orb (the Sun) covered in black spots. Most are small but on the left there is a new large whispy sunspot!

ALT This is sunspot 13780. It's got a super dark core and wider tanned extent, surrounded by lots of smaller sun spots.

ALT Drone view of Rubin Observatory on top of its summit site on Cerro Pachón against a sunset scene. The observatory building is an angular silver dome on top of a long building extending to the left. The observatory sits against a yellow and orange sky and gray clouds, with rolling mountain ridges in varying shades of purple and pink fading into the background. From https://Rubin.canto.com/b/JHADL

ALT A night time beach scene with a difference: a rainbow burst of light, pink, green and red colours streaking across the sky. The Aurora in Portobello Edinburgh.

ALT An iPad showing M81, Bode's galaxy, as imaged by the SeeStar telescope. It's a big massive swirling galaxy, surrounded by a splattering of bright stars in the foreground.

ALT In the sunshine with Prof Andy Lawrence at the centre standing over what looks like a little black robot, but is in fact the SeeStar smartscope. He is surrounded by people looking at the screen, learning how to use the telescope to look for sunspots.