Astronomers using the ESO Very Large Telescope have found a black hole called NGC300 X-1 in the spiral galaxy NGC 300 in the constellation Sculptor. This is the furthest stellar mass black hole yet found. Stellar Mass black holes have a mass up … Read more →
Nasa’s hugely successful Mars rover Spirit is stuck in sand unable to move, and is now in it’s final resting place. It got into it’s tricky predicament last May and Nasa has been trying to free it ever since. But all … Read more →
The unimaginable and powerful raging heart of our Solar System the Sun, is responsible for and maintains all life on earth, it is like an engine that drives our weather and climate, and plant life cannot photosynthesize without it. All power we … Read more →
This is an amazing image recently released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), of a huge area of gas and dust that is a star birth region in the Milky Way. This astronomical object is one of the few that really … Read more →
Sunday 19th of May 2013 This page keeps track of the planets daily, telling you where they are in the sky if visible, with rising/setting times, and highest points. Also information about how long you’ll be able to see them … Read more →
The Scale of the universe is difficult to comprehend, it is so colossal that the numbers involved are impossible to even imagine. The vast mind boggling distances make the Earth equivalent to a tiny speck of dust in a desert. When you look … Read more →
Enceladus is Saturn’s mysterious icy moon, at only around the diameter of England, and with an odd terrain at it’s south pole called “Tiger stripes” where eruptions of water rich plumes are known to emanate from. This place is a puzzle … Read more →
The Crab Nebula, the stellar wreckage of a heavy weight star 7,000 light years away, that blew itself apart in a supernova explosion in the year 1054 that was recorded by Chinese and Arab astronomers. The supernova and its afterglow was actually visible … Read more →