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Juno Mission

Juno Mission

“Juno sang and it was a song of perfection”. These are the words of Rick Nybakken on 5th July as the Juno spacecraft completed it’s five year long and 1.8 billion mile journey and was able to successfully enter orbit around Jupiter. As it approached Jupiter it was travelling at an incredible 266,0...

Five Of The Most Unusual Nebula

Five Of The Most Unusual Nebula

1) The Waterfall Nebula The Waterfall Nebula – also called HH-222 – is located approximately 1,500 light years away from Earth in the Orion Molecular Cloud. The process of it’s formation remains a mystery. One theory is that the nebula is the result of stellar winds blowing from a young star which...

The Top 10 Stargazing Locations Worldwide

The Top 10 Stargazing Locations Worldwide

There’s hundreds of beautiful locations across the planet where you can sit and gaze up at the stars. There are a few truly outstanding places though and here’s Star Name Registry’s top ten: 10) Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, New Zealand. This Aoraki Mackenzie International Dar...

Top Space Apps

Top Space Apps

25th April 2016

Stargazing can be an incredible experience. It can also be difficult for the amateur astronomer, luckily though there’s an app for that! That’s why this week Star-Name-Registry is providing you a list of the top apps to help you find your place in the universe. Exoplanet (Free, iOS) Exoplane...

Project “Starshot”

Project “Starshot”

14th April 2016

Using current technology journeying to our closest star system – Alpha Centuri – would take thousands of years. Conventional technology would take us approximately 30,000 years to get there! However, recently a new project has been launched – a $100 million project called Breakthrough Starshot which...

Supernova Shockwave Spotted

24th March 2016

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. The Supernova shock wave – or the shock breakout – was captured by NASA’s Keplar Space Telescope. The Keplar Telescope had to keep con...

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: What is the brightest star: a) Bellatrix b) Sirius c) Aldebaran d) Vega The answer of course was b) Sirius! We had two wi...

Star-Name-Registry Competition #4

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! For this week’s competition we’ve decided to test you with a bit of astronomy trivia. To be in with a chance to win all you have to do is answer this question correctly: The Brighte...

New Super Huge Telescope

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 Telescope) will involve the construction of 4,450 triangular panels to create its shape. The final telescope...

Competition Winner!

22nd February 2016

The time has come to announce the winner of the 3rd Star-Name-Registry competition. The task this time was to complete this simple sentence: “For my next holiday, I’ll be heading to _____” The winner of this contest is: Sharon Linnen with the answer “To the stars”. Congratulations Sharon. Y...

Star-Name-Registry Competition #3

Star-Name-Registry Competition #3

18th February 2016

It’s already time for the third weekly Star-Name-Registry competition! All the cold weather has had the Star-Name-Registry team thinking about dream holidays, so to enter this week’s competition all you will need to do is finish this sentence: “For my next holiday, I’ll be heading to _____” As...

The Planets Align!

The Planets Align!

16th February 2016

Now is the last chance for a while to see the five planets of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn align! The last time this event occurred was over a decade ago and took place between December 15th 2004 and January 15th 2005. The next time will be August latter this year but it will be consider...

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