Russell Deeks

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Russell Deeks

Netflix racked up 11 No. 1 movies in 2025 so far — here’s the 3 worth watchingWe’re more than a third of the way through 2025 and now is a great time to take stock of which Netflix movies have claimed the No. 1 spot this year. …

1 week ago | skyatnightmagazine.com | Russell Deeks

We thought, when we sat down to compile a list of songs about space and astronomy, that it would be  a nice easy thing to do. After all, there are loads of them, aren’t there? Well, yes and no. There are certainly a million and one songs with ‘star’ or ‘sun’ or ‘cosmic’ or ‘planet’ in the title… but that doesn’t mean they’re actually ABOUT space. Taylor Swift’s ‘Starlight’, for instance, appears – as far as we can make out – to be about dancing on a yacht.

2 weeks ago | skyatnightmagazine.com | Russell Deeks

Renowned for its countless casinos, hotels, restaurants and entertainment venues, not to mention its neon-lit Strip – the long street on which most of the above stand – Las Vegas attracts over 40 million visitors a year, and is known as the entertainment capital of the world to some, and Sin City to others!It’s also – thanks to all that neon – often claimed to be the brightest city on Earth, as seen from space. But is it really? Well, it’s certainly brightly lit at night.

1 month ago | skyatnightmagazine.com | Russell Deeks

Jupiter is the undisputed King of the Planets. It’s a gas giant, its huge mass made up of hydrogen and helium gas. Jupiter's upper atmosphere is streaked by dark belts and white zones – streams of clouds that blow in alternating directions around the planet. Caught between these are several huge storms. The largest of these, the Great Red Spot, has been raging for at least 150 years and could easily swallow the entire Earth.

1 month ago | skyatnightmagazine.com | Russell Deeks

Look up during the day, and you’ll see the Sun; look up at night, and you’ll (sometimes) see a full Moon. Rather confusingly, both appear to be roughly the same size, despite most of us knowing from a very young age that the Sun is absolutely enormous, and the Moon is much smaller. So what’s going on? Quite often with space and astronomy questions such as this, there's a nice simple explanation, to which there's then a caveat “But it’s not actually as simple as that”.