The Top Seven Stargazing Locations in The UK
The United Kingdom is lucky enough to have an incredible number of beautiful spots which are perfect for stargazing. Here is Star-Name-Registry’s top seven:
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 succe…
Five Of The Most Unusual 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 t…
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:
Top Space Apps
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 l…
Project “Starshot”
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! Howeve…
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…
Competition Winner!
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:
Star-Name-Registry Competition #3
It’s already time for the third weekly Star-Name-Registry competition!