Supernova Shockwave Spotted
A supernova is the incredible, violent and explosive end of a star. Recently one of these extraordinary events has been seen for the first time with visible light.
Star-Name-Registry Competition #4 – Winner!
It’s time to announce the winner of the 4th Star-Name-Registry competition. The task this week was to answer a piece of space trivia. The question we posed you was:
Star-Name-Registry Competition #4
It’s time for our fourth weekly competition. As usual the prize for winning will be a free extra bright name a star!
New Super Huge Telescope
Work is currently underway on a new 500 metre large radio telescope in Guizhou Province, China. This 1.2 billion Yuan (£120 million) project named FAST (Five Hundred Metre Aperture Spherical Telesc…