Facts about the Hubble Space Telescope.
- The Idea for a Space Telescope is much older than you wold think. Dating all the way back to just after World War Two in fact, when astronomer Lyman Spitzer (1914-97) suggested the advantages tha…
10 Weirdest Aliens in the Marvel Universe.
The wise cracking, gun toting, and hairiest member of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Rocket is racoon is genetically that has been genetically and cybernetically engineered. he makes up half of the b…
Women in Space.
For many years, as it seems to be the case with everything, women were deemed too sensitive and unstable for space. Not to mention – ‘but what about their \cough\ monthlies \cough\?’ Yet women have…
7 of Astronomy’s Greatest Mysteries.
Space is full of weird things, however, most of them can be explained by science. Yet there are some that stump even the most accomplished astronomers.
Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time!
“The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
The History of Halley’s Comet.
Halley’s comet must be one of the most famous ever. Its periodic appearances, about every 75 years or so has added to its celebrity. It last appeared in our skies in 1986, and it set to return in 2…
The Most Famous Astronomers of All Time.
Claudius Ptolemy was an Egyptian astronomer, mathematician and geographer, with Greek ancestry. Some of his texts were so important that they changed west scientific thinking forever.
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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.
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 gr…
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. !2 - It is thought that Venus is made up of a central iron core,…
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, there are several different types.