Stargazing Challenges - March 2025
- 27th Feb 2025
- Author: Dhara Patel
Are you up for the challenge? See if you can spot our three stargazing highlights for March 2025.
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NASA/JPL-Caltech SPHEREx – Discovering Our Cosmic Origins
- 24th Feb 2025
- Author: Katie Holland
After more than a decade in the making, NASA’s SPHEREx is set to launch at the beginning of March 2025, surveying the skies to determine our Universe’s origins.
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Nick Russill (CC BY 2.0) 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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National Space Centre Design a date night on the ISS!
- 14th Feb 2025
- Author: Chloe Hopkinson
Design a date night on the ISS and we’ll tell you what romantic part of the universe you are!
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Antonio Rodriguez 5 Pioneering Women in Science You Should Know About
- 11th Feb 2025
- Author: Chloe Hopkinson
This International Day of Women and Girls in Science Day, uncover the five pioneers who helped change the world!
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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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National Space Centre Quadrantid Meteor Shower 2025
- 30th Dec 2024
- Author: Team Discovery (edited: Dhara Patel)
In 2025, the Quadrantid meteor shower peaks on the night of 3-4 January with up to 80 meteors per hour.
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Skyrora What's Happening in Space in 2025?
- 26th Dec 2024
- Author: Alex Thompson
It’s time once again to look ahead to some of the missions, probes, and spaceflights set to take off over the next twelve months!
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ESA 2024 Space Highlights
- 20th Dec 2024
- Author: Alex Thompson
It’s been a year of new Dawns and chang’e in space. Let’s look back at some of the highlights of the past twelve months.
