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 life cycle of a star
Nebula
Cassini Enters Its Grand Finale!
The Cassini Spacecraft (launched in 1997) has been orbiting the planet Saturn since 2004. Its full name is the Cassini-Huygens Spacecraft since it was named after the astronomers Giovanni Cassini a…
The Weird and Wonderful IAU Naming Conventions
The IAU is the international organisation which is charge of designating celestial bodies and their features. To assist in the process of naming these objects and features the IAU has developed an…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Is there really a Planet X?
"Killing Pluto was fun, but this is head and shoulders above everything else" – Mike Brown
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