Tag: Universe

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...

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...

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....

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...

Largest Solar System Discovered

Continuing on the theme of odd planetary discoveries, recently scientists have found the largest known solar system in existence, as reported by the BBC. This system – approximately 100 light years away from Earth – consists of a red dwarf star and a super massive planet and is three times as la...

Is there really a Planet X?

"Killing Pluto was fun, but this is head and shoulders above everything else" – Mike Brown It has long been suspected that a ninth planet lurks out there (sorry Pluto, it’s not you!) and over the years it has been proposed numerous times. Recently however researchers Mike Brown and Konstantin B...

Our First Blog!

Welcome to the brand new Star-Name-Registry blog! This is the place where you'll be able to find all of our latest updates, exclusive offers and all of the latest space and astronomy related news! We will be regularly posting about all of the things that get us excited us here at Star-Name-Re...