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What is the Star Name Registry Star Register?

Find your Star in 8 EASY STEPS! Here at Star Name Registry, we guarantee no Star Will ever be named twice. But that does lead to an interesting question on how we ensure that will never happen? That’s where our Interactive Star Register comes into play. It is a fully interactive online register...

Weird and Wacky Space Conspiracy Theories

Weird and Wacky Space Conspiracy Theories

There is nothing that people like more than a conspiracy, the Illuminati is the obvious one but there are many that are space related. The Apollo Moon Landings were faked. Between 1969 and 1972, twelve NASA astronauts have walked on the moon and there have been numerous photos of landing s...

Heroes in the Night Sky.

Heroes in the Night Sky.

The planets in our solar system are named after Greek and Roman gods, but they are not the only mythologies hidden away in the cosmos. Hanging, twinkling in the sky are also the stories of three great Greek Heroes – Orion, Perseus and Jason. Orion Orion was a fabled hunter among the Greeks...

Venus factfile

Venus factfile

Venus is named after the Roman goddess of Love – Venus. Venus is almost the same size as Earth. It has a diameter of 12,104 km. It is thought that Venus is made up of a central iron core, a rocky mantle and a silicate crust. A year on Venus is 225 Earth days. Ve...

The Different Types of Satellites

The Different Types of Satellites

There are two major types of satellites; natural and man-made. Natural satellites would be, for example, our moon. However, within the scope of man-made satellites however, there are several different types. Man-made satellites are classified following the type of orbit that they are in, as this...

The life cycle of a star

The life cycle of a star

Nebula Stars start of life in a nebula, a cloud of hydrogen gas and dust. Here all the elements necessary for making a star are blown around and chemically react with each other. There are several different types of nebula. The Orion nebula, for example, is an Emission Nebula. This means that it...

Tide-y facts about the Moons effect on the Oceans.

Tide-y facts about the Moons effect on the Oceans.

24th April 2017

The gravitational force of the moon may be only 1 ten millionth that of the Earth but when you combine it with other forces, like that of Earth’s centrifugal force (the force created by the Earth’s spinning), tides appear. The sun also has a gravitational force which acts upon the...

10 Stunning pictures of the Earth at night.

10 Stunning pictures of the Earth at night.

18th April 2017

Nasa have just released some pictures of the Erath from space at night time and they are stunning! Named the Black Marble, the collection of pictures shows just how magnificent our planet really is and so here are 10 more gorgeous photos of our gorgeous planet studded in twinkling lights. ...

The Story of Pluto.

The Story of Pluto.

10th April 2017

Everyone knows of Pluto’s demotion in 2006 from a planet to a dwarf planet, but this might be about to change. There has been hot debate about Pluto’s status in the solar system and it could well be that it must be reclassified again. In the meantime, here are several awesome facts about everyone’s...

Top 12 craziest photos taken by the Hubble Space telescope.

Top 12 craziest photos taken by the Hubble Space telescope.

Rose made of galaxies This photo was released to celebrate Hubble’s 21st anniversary. It shows two galaxies swirling together. This beautiful flower can be seen in the Andromeda constellation. When Black holes collide No one has yet been able to take a picture of...

15 Awesome St Patrick’s Day Facts.

15 Awesome St Patrick’s Day Facts.

17th March 2017

We should actually wear Blue Saint Patrick would have had to put up with being pinched. His colour was a very pale blue called “Saint Patrick’s Blue”. The colour green only became associated with the feast day after the Irish Independence Movement in the late 18th Century. Sain...

Ridiculous Names for Serious Space Equipment

Ridiculous Names for Serious Space Equipment

13th March 2017

Ridiculous Names for Serious Space Equipment Not all spacey stuff is all acronyms and complicated numbers, some very serious equipment has names that border on the fanciful. Here is a list of 6 of the best: MIRACLE Miracle a.k.a. the Mid-InfraRed Array Camera of Least Effort Not to judge but...

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