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The Crescent Moon and planets, Late August 27 Aug 2013 | 01:25 am
On the 3 days following the 31st of August in the morning twilight, the waning crescent Moon moves past Jupiter then Mars… Looking east, a nice pairing of Jupiter and the crescent Moon occurs on the m...
The Perseids Meteor Shower 2013 5 Aug 2013 | 06:17 pm
The Comet Somewhere in our solar system is a huge 26 kilometre (16 miles) wide chunk of rock and ice is on its 133 year long orbit around the Sun. This is the comet Swift Tuttle, an icy visitor larger...
Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, and The Crescent Moon in Early August 1 Aug 2013 | 02:44 pm
If you get up before sunrise over the coming days, take a look over to your north east and you’ll see a few of Earth’s neighbours low in the morning twilight. Going up from the horizon is the briefest...
Astronomy: The Size of Stuff 11 Jun 2013 | 01:18 am
The vast majority of objects out there in space are pretty big…moons, planets, stars, galaxies, so it can be difficult sometimes to get your head round their actual size. Here I compare stuff out ther...
Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury Conjunction Late May 2013 13 May 2013 | 09:12 pm
Two rocky worlds and a gas giant form a triangle at dusk at the end of May, low to your north west. From Saturday the 25th to Wednesday the 29th, Earth’s evil twin Venus, the gas planet Jupiter, and t...
Untitled 12 Apr 2013 | 02:41 pm
“A coronal mass ejection is a billion tonne cloud of magnetised gas launched into space by an explosion on the Sun, caused by magnetic fields breaking apart under high stress. When headed for Earth CM...
The Parachute From 1971 Mars Lander? 12 Apr 2013 | 02:18 pm
Mars’ craters, plains, and valleys are littered with the metallic skeletons of various chunks of hardware sent from Earth over the decades. The red planet has earned the nickname ‘the spacecrafts grav...
The Red Planet? 21 Mar 2013 | 06:50 pm
Scratch the surface of Mars the red planet and beneath its thin rusty coloured surface you might find something else entirely. Well that’s according to one of the latest images sent back from the su...
Comet PANSTARRS Images 13 Mar 2013 | 03:28 pm
Comet PANSTARRS is just the latest vistor to our skies, after some exciting and unexpected visitors from space. It was the meteor that hit Russia on the 15th of February that caused panic, injuries, a...
Moscow From The ISS 10 Mar 2013 | 03:29 am
Who else gets a view like this out of the office window? Only the astronauts aboard the International Space Station that’s who. The city of Moscow looks stunning traced out by its lights, as the ISS p...
