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What should I look at with my new telescope?

December 29, 2025
If you’ve just unboxed a telescope for Christmas 2025, you’re in luck. Not only is a waxing crescent moon in the evening sky in the week between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve, but Jupiter is riding high — looking like a “Christmas Star” — and some of the best deep-sky objects are at their best. There’s even a full moon coming — the Wolf Supermoon — in the first week of…
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These are the pictures Martin Parr planned to show at the Pearly Gates

December 29, 2025
It’s been almost a month since documentary photographer Martin Parr left us. He spent over 50 years capturing everyday British life with saturated colors and a satirical eye, and leaves behind an enormous body of work. But Parr knew which photographs mattered most. When asked about his legacy, he said that when he reached the Pearly Gates, The Last Resort – his breakthrough series from…
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These are my top 12 photography books published in 2025

December 29, 2025
How to Photograph Gardens Anyone wondering how to do just that will find plenty to learn in this book by Jason Ingram. One of the UK’s leading exponents of the craft, he takes the reader on a tour of some of his favourite gardens in the UK and abroad, illustrating his…
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It's time to start recommending some Tesla Powerwall alternatives [update]

December 29, 2025
For years, Tesla Powerwall has been the go-to recommendation for “normals” looking for a painless, low-effort experience from their first home solar and battery backup solutions. But with a recent recall on more than 10,000 home batteries over fire safety concerns following a year (or more) of CEO Elon Musk’s political antics, more and more people are beginning to look for alternatives to…
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What to know about the militants targeted by US airstrikes in Nigeria

December 29, 2025
The United States airstrikes that targeted Islamic State group militants in northwestern Nigeria on Thursday marked a major escalation in an offensive that the West African’s overstretched military has struggled with for years. U.S. President Donald Trump said on social media that the “powerful and deadly” strikes in the state of Sokoto were carried out against IS gunmen who were…
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