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Star-Name-Registry Competition #4

It’s time for our fourth weekly competition. As usual the prize for winning will be a free extra bright name a star! For this week’s competition we’ve decided to test you with a bit of astronomy trivia. To be in with a chance to win all you have to do is answer this question correctly: The Brighte...

New Super Huge Telescope

Work is currently underway on a new 500 metre large radio telescope in Guizhou Province, China. This 1.2 billion Yuan (£120 million) project named FAST (Five Hundred Metre Aperture Spherical Telescope) will involve the construction of 4,450 triangular panels to create its shape. The final telescope...

Star-Name-Registry Competition #3

It’s already time for the third weekly Star-Name-Registry competition! All the cold weather has had the Star-Name-Registry team thinking about dream holidays, so to enter this week’s competition all you will need to do is finish this sentence: “For my next holiday, I’ll be heading to _____” As...

The Planets Align!

Now is the last chance for a while to see the five planets of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn align! The last time this event occurred was over a decade ago and took place between December 15th 2004 and January 15th 2005. The next time will be August latter this year but it will be consider...

Star-Name-Registry – Weekly Competition Winner!

It’s time to announce the winner of our second weekly competition! The competition this week tasked our readers to name their favourite love song by finishing this sentence: “The greatest love song ever written is ___”. We had a few good answers to this but there can be only one winner! The winner...

Star-Name-Registry – Competition Time!

Hello! Our weekly competition has come around once more! Valentine’s Day is only a few days away now and so for this competition we will again be sticking to a romantic theme. To win this week simply finish this sentence. “The greatest love song ever written is ___”. Post your favourite love son...

Mysterious New Force

Parts of the universe seem to be moving at an incredible speed in a uniform direction towards the edge of the visible universe and scientists don’t yet know why. This phenomenon – which astronomers have dubbed Dark Flow – is unexplainable by any known gravitational forces in the observable universe....

Star-Name-Registry Competition!

Starting from this week we are launching a weekly competition to win a free extra bright star. The competition will be held every Thursday and the winner will be announced on the following Monday. For this week’s competition we will be getting into the Valentine’s mood and to enter all you need...

Smith’s Cloud

A massive cloud of hydrogen gas 11,000 light years long and 2,5000 light years across with over one million solar masses is hurtling at a speed of 700,000 miles per hour towards our Galaxy. This is Smith’s Cloud. It was first discovered in 1963 by then astronomy student Gail Smith at Leiden Univer...