What are the northern lights?
- 24th Feb 2025
- Author: Dhara Patel
A guide to understanding what aurorae are, how can you spot them and why we've been seeing them more from the UK.
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Torr3 (CC BY-SA 4.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ ) How did the Planets get their Names?
- 10th Feb 2025
- Author: David Southworth
How different languages and cultures named the planets.
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5 Stargazing Challenges - National Astronomy Week 2025
- 20th Jan 2025
- Author: Dhara Patel
Have a go at our 5 stargazing challenges as we chase the Moon across the sky this National Astronomy week (1-9 February 2025).
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NASA How the UK helped America Go to the Moon
- 9th Dec 2024
- Author: John Statham
America may have landed astronauts on the Moon but it took people around the world to make it happen and UK citizens played a role in that.
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Jane Kyprianou Lunar Astrophotography
- 2nd Dec 2024
- Author: Jane Kyprianou
A guide to capturing one of nature's most striking astronomical objects - the Moon.
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NASA/GSFC/SDO The Spookiest Places in the Universe
- 29th Oct 2024
- Author: Lucy Spencer
When it comes to scary wonders, space holds some of the universe’s creepiest secrets. From vampire stars to cosmic pumpkins, let’s take a trip through the spookiest places in the universe.
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Blue Origin New Glenn, Blue Origin's Flagship Launch Vehicle
- 8th Oct 2024
- Author: Ed Kellond-Turner
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is set to launch no earlier than November 2024, carrying a Blue Ring spacecraft platform. But who are Blue Origin? And what celestial targets do they have their sights on?
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National Space Centre Mission Europa
- 1st Oct 2024
- Author: Katie Holland
Europa Clipper is the newest mission to the smallest of Jupiter's Galilean moons. But what is there to learn about this little icy world?
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ESA Hera: ESA's Mission to a Damaged Asteroid
- 23rd Sep 2024
- Author: Ed Kellond-Turner
Hera is ESA's mission to the asteroid Dimorphos, to investigate the recent impact of NASA's DART spacecraft, helping to save planet Earth from future hazardous asteroids.
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Polaris Program/John Kraus Polaris Dawn
- 19th Aug 2024
- Author: Ed Kellond-Turner
The Polaris Program hopes to demonstrate operational capabilities that will help further human exploration to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
