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Out and Proud Cardiff

Out and Proud Cardiff target the younger LGBT community, they try and raise self-awareness and eliminate the stigma surrounding the LGBT community. Their aim is also to try and eliminate social isolation a lot of LGBT people feel nowadays. Take a look at their website here

Pride Cymru

Pride Cymru is a welsh charity mainly based in Cardiff, where they hold the biggest pride event. Their main aim is to remove the stigma around sexual orientation and gender. Take a look at their website

Touch Trust

Touch Trust’s aim is to help disabled people of all ages across Wales. They run their activities in the millennium center we’re weekly they get around 160 people attending their sessions. Their target is to bring people together and give disabled members of the community a chance to make new frien...

Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time!

Dune – Frank Herbert “The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.” A power struggle on the desert planet Arrakis, the sole source of Melange, a resource vital for spaceflight, he who wins will wield great power and influence over the universe. The usurped Duk...

The History of Halley’s Comet.

Halley’s comet must be one of the most famous ever. Its periodic appearances, about every 75 years or so has added to its celebrity.  It last appeared in our skies in 1986, and it set to return in 2061. The comet is named for the astronomer who discovered it – Edmond Halley. He examined reports...

The Most Famous Astronomers of All Time.

Claudius Ptolemy (90 A.D.– 168 A.D) Claudius Ptolemy was an Egyptian astronomer, mathematician and geographer, with Greek ancestry. Some of his texts were so important that they changed west scientific thinking forever. His book the Almagest, was one of the most revolutionary. It comprehen...

Fascinating Father’s Day facts

According to a leading card retailer, Hallmark, Father’s Day is the 4th largest card selling occasion in the years. It sees around 74 Million cards given every year! Only 50% of these cards are actually given to fathers, almost 20% are given to husbands. A lady called Sonora Louis...

Awesome Father’s Day Gift Ideas

Why not name a star after him? For a dad who is out of this world, name a star for him at the https://star-name-registry.com   How about a patch of land on the Moon? Does your dad need somewhere to escape to? How about buying him an acre or two on the moon at https:/...

Weird and Wacky Space Conspiracy Theories

There is nothing that people like more than a conspiracy, the Illuminati is the obvious one but there are many that are space related. The Apollo Moon Landings were faked. Between 1969 and 1972, twelve NASA astronauts have walked on the moon and there have been numerous photos of landing s...

Heroes in the Night Sky.

The planets in our solar system are named after Greek and Roman gods, but they are not the only mythologies hidden away in the cosmos. Hanging, twinkling in the sky are also the stories of three great Greek Heroes – Orion, Perseus and Jason. Orion Orion was a fabled hunter among the Greeks...

Venus factfile

  Venus is named after the Roman goddess of Love – Venus. Venus is almost the same size as Earth. It has a diameter of 12,104 km. It is thought that Venus is made up of a central iron core, a rocky mantle and a silicate crust. A year on Venus is 225 Earth days. Ve...