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!
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…
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…
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…
Star-Name-Registry Competition Winner!
The time has come to announce the winner of our first weekly Star-Name-Registry competition. The competition this week challenged readers to finish this sentence: