Delta Aquariid Meteor Shower 2024
- 21st Jul 2024
- Author: Lucy Spencer
In 2024, the Delta Aquariids peak in the early hours of 30th July, with a rate of 15-20 meteors per hour.
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NASA/JPL-Caltech The CANs and CAN’Ts of Time Travel
- 13th Feb 2024
- Author: Caitlin Hauxwell
Could time travel be possible? What would the rules be? And what are the mind-bending paradoxes that go with it?
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA Cosmic Valentines
- 8th Feb 2024
- Author: Catherine Muller
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NASA, ESA, and S. Beckwith (STScI) and the HUDF Team Space Telescopes
- 25th Jan 2024
- Author: Katie Holland
Space telescopes have been helping to expand our view of the cosmos for the last 50 years, but why do we bother sending them to space?
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Ryan Wick CC BY 2.0 DEED A beginner's guide to Telescopes
- 6th Dec 2023
- Author: Lucy Spencer
Telescopes are powerful tools for observing the night sky – read this blog for a simple guide on what to look for, and how to use them!
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NASA/ JPL- Caltech/ASU/Peter Rubin Psyche Mission
- 26th Sep 2023
- Author: Elspeth Lewis
The Psyche mission will study an asteroid that may be very similar to the core of the Earth and other rocky planets.
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Henrik Melin Space Careers: Henrik Melin
- 23rd Aug 2023
- Author: Dhara Patel
We caught up with Dr Henrik Melin from the University of Leicester to find out how he became and what he does as a planetary scientist.
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NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI A beginner's guide to Astrophotography
- 7th Aug 2023
- Author: Jane Kyprianou
A simple how-to guide for budding astrophotographers wanting to image the night sky and the astronomical objects within it.
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Stephen Rahn (Public domain) Solar System Summer: Venus
- 26th Jul 2023
- Author: Elspeth Lewis - Education Presenter
Known as the Earth's twin, Venus is far from the habitable and pleasant world that ours is.
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NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Solar System Summer: Pluto
- 22nd Jun 2023
- Author: Elspeth Lewis
Just because it is no longer classed as a planet, doesn’t mean that Pluto isn’t worth learning about.
