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FTWW (Fair Treatment for the Women of Wales)

FTWW (Fair Treatment for the Women of Wales)

14th November 2017

FTWW (Fair Treatment for the Women of Wales) is a Wales based charity with a focus on providing better health care treatment for women throughout the country. Their primary concern is that in both the workplace and in amongst health care professionals that women’s symptoms and concerns are often...

The secret connection between the Pleiades Star Cluster and a 2500 year old scandal!

The secret connection between the Pleiades Star Cluster and a 2500 year old scandal!

10th November 2017

November is unrelenting month of the year. If you’re looking to dedicate a star to someone or have a star named after you , you may not want to linger outside for too long in case you catch a nasty chill. But inspiration is easy in November as one of the more memorable collections of stars becom...

Muse’s Starlight – The Dissonance between Hope and Despair

Muse’s Starlight – The Dissonance between Hope and Despair

3rd November 2017

Some things can cause a strange feeling of dissonance. When you look toward the stars in the sky, possibly thinking to dedicate a star to someone, or get a star named after you, you’ll perhaps be overwhelmed at the idea of a burning ball of gas burning for billions of years; yet perhaps slightly...

New Cardiff Kiosk open!

2nd November 2017

Blue Straggler: the Vampire star

Blue Straggler: the Vampire star

31st October 2017

It is now old Hallows eve. Granted, most of you probably celebrated the event over the past weekend, but for the purists among you it is tonight that we get out the pumpkin, put on the masks and layer the fake blood upon your faces. If you’re asking the question, how to buy a star or how to adopt a...

Kidney Wales – Aren Cymru

Kidney Wales – Aren Cymru

30th October 2017

Kidney Wales are a Cardiff based charity who focus on fundraising for renal research care and education. Kidney disease is a common condition and while it can be easily treated there are concerns that current facilities and infrastructure available are not adequate enough to meet patient needs....

Make your own Constellation Pumpkin

Make your own Constellation Pumpkin

27th October 2017

It’s pumpkin season! We’ll all be making our pumpkins ready for Halloween celebrations, but not all of us can carve them hollow! Either we don’t have the right tools or you might actually be allergic to pumpkin! If so, you can still paint an image onto a pumpkin and it looks pretty good! Here...

Scorpius of Farscape

Scorpius of Farscape

27th October 2017

Science fiction, though not a universally loved genre is one of the favourites among scientists – as it the genre that dares to dream big with what we already understand about the world. Aside from showing us the potentials of what might be possible, Sci Fi gives us an insight into who we are as hum...

Quiz! Which famous Scorpio are you?

26th October 2017

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The Haunted Heavens – The spookier side of space!

The Haunted Heavens – The spookier side of space!

26th October 2017

Halloween may just be one day down here on earth, but ghosts, ghouls and goblins are out there floating in space all year round. Not literally of course, the poor things but stars and such do create some creepy shapes! So, to make the most of Halloween, we’ll be celebrating the creepier ways to de...

Scorpius – The Polynesian Connection

Scorpius – The Polynesian Connection

25th October 2017

Scorpion or Fish hook? To register a star must have been tricky for the ancient peoples as they only had the naked eye to use. Part of the reason we have constellations at all is that making shapes out of stars that were clustered together made them easier to locate. But not all cultures saw the...

Antares – the Heart of the Scorpion

Antares – the Heart of the Scorpion

24th October 2017

What makes the constellations special is not just the images they inspire, but the body of stars that makes them up. It’s a very special thing to own a star, and for the constellation of Scorpius, it has a very interesting one at its very heart. The brightest star of the Scorpius constellation is...

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