Congratulations Andrea and Patrick on your top scores in the Ephemeris/SpaceStore Quiz on 19th June!
The next quiz is on Friday 3rd July at 5:30pm.
For anyone not too savvy with the wondrous facts of our solar system, it’s A or B answers – a fun and family-friendly game with 3 rounds of 5 to 10 questions.
This is a webminar so no need to dress up!
Register: If you fancy the challenge, please do register with SpaceStore on the link below and join in, just for fun!
A team discovered a haul of 20 new moons orbiting the ringed planet, bringing its total to 82; Jupiter, by contrast, has 79 natural satellites. Each of the newly discovered objects in orbit around Saturn is about 5km (three miles) in diameter; 17 of them orbit the planet “backwards”. The moons were discovered using the Subaru telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii.
The awesome vastness of time and space is laid out in its full, jaw-dropping incomprehensibility by Prof Brian Cox, the Attenborough of outer space … Rebecca Nicholson The Guardian Review
For the second time in history, a human-made object has reached the space between the stars. NASA’s Voyager 2 probe now has exited the heliosphere – the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by the Sun. Read more at NASA.
This is an illustration showing a simulated view of NASA’s InSight lander about to land on the surface of Mars. This view shows the underside of the spacecraft. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Parker Solar Probe, shown in this animation, became the closest-ever spacecraft to the Sun on Oct. 29, 2018, when it passed within 26.55 million miles of the Sun’s surface. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL
An intriguing astronomy game and a quiz game based on the movements of the planets through the solar system
Parker Solar Probe, shown in this animation, became the closest-ever spacecraft to the Sun on Oct. 29, 2018, when it passed within 26.55 million miles of the Sun’s surface. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL