Star Name Registry Blog

Star-Name-Registry Competition #3

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!

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...

Star-Name-Registry – Weekly Competition Winner!

It’s time to announce the winner of our second weekly competition! The competition this week tasked our readers to name their favourite love song by finishing this sentence: “The greatest love song ever written is ___”. We had a few good answers to this but there can be only one winner! The winner...

Star-Name-Registry – Competition Time!

Hello! Our weekly competition has come around once more! Valentine’s Day is only a few days away now and so for this competition we will again be sticking to a romantic theme. To win this week simply finish this sentence. “The greatest love song ever written is ___”. Post your favourite love son...

Mysterious New Force

Parts of the universe seem to be moving at an incredible speed in a uniform direction towards the edge of the visible universe and scientists don’t yet know why. This phenomenon – which astronomers have dubbed Dark Flow – is unexplainable by any known gravitational forces in the observable universe....

Star-Name-Registry Competition!

Starting from this week we are launching a weekly competition to win a free extra bright star. The competition will be held every Thursday and the winner will be announced on the following Monday. For this week’s competition we will be getting into the Valentine’s mood and to enter all you need...

Smith’s Cloud

A massive cloud of hydrogen gas 11,000 light years long and 2,5000 light years across with over one million solar masses is hurtling at a speed of 700,000 miles per hour towards our Galaxy. This is Smith’s Cloud. It was first discovered in 1963 by then astronomy student Gail Smith at Leiden Univer...

Largest Solar System Discovered

Continuing on the theme of odd planetary discoveries, recently scientists have found the largest known solar system in existence, as reported by the BBC. This system – approximately 100 light years away from Earth – consists of a red dwarf star and a super massive planet and is three times as la...

Is there really a Planet X?

"Killing Pluto was fun, but this is head and shoulders above everything else" – Mike Brown It has long been suspected that a ninth planet lurks out there (sorry Pluto, it’s not you!) and over the years it has been proposed numerous times. Recently however researchers Mike Brown and Konstantin B...

Our First Blog!

Welcome to the brand new Star-Name-Registry blog! This is the place where you'll be able to find all of our latest updates, exclusive offers and all of the latest space and astronomy related news! We will be regularly posting about all of the things that get us excited us here at Star-Name-Re...