This is Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn at around the size of England. Take a look at those strange looking blue lines near it’s south pole, they are nicknamed the “Tiger Stripes“ and are fractures in the moon’s icy crust. This … Read more →
When the mother of all explosions, the Big Bang, went off around 13 billion years ago, the very first stars to form in the newly born Universe were primitive in their make up. They were the very first generation of … Read more →
Take a look at this lump of apparantly ordinary looking rock, it doesn’t seem anything spectacular. But this thing has been floating around our solar system for a hell of a long time, 4.65 billion years in fact. This is the … Read more →
The array of Nasa spacecraft and rovers, or rover (sadly, Spirit is in it’s final resting place) just carry on giving us great pictures and science from the red planet. The razor sharp images we now routinely get from Nasa’s Mars … Read more →
The famous Orion Nebula (M42) is a favourite with amateur astronomers, being very bright it can even be seen with small binoculars glowing in the sword of Orion. It’s a jewel of the sky, a vast cloud of gas and … Read more →
Pluto, was once classed as the ninth planet of our solar system but was demoted in 2006 to a dwarf planet instead by the International Astronomical Union. This body on the edges of our family of planets is a ball of rock and ice … Read more →
Looking like a sky full of fireworks this striking image shows intense activity, a mammoth star nursery is constantly churning out new suns from a nebula’s vast resources of gas and dust. This breathtaking scene is located in the Carina arm of our own Galaxy … Read more →
Earth’s Moon has been battered, pummelled and scarred from billions of years of relentless and violent space impacts. The Moon is our constant companion in space, Earth’s only natural satellite at 4.5 billion years old, 238,897 miles away, and the same … Read more →