The Iconic Very Large Array (VLA) Radio Telescopes
Earth’s Big Ear On Space The Very Large Array (VLA) is an iconic collection of 27 radio astronomy dishes arranged in a ‘Y’ shape high in the New Mexico desert…
Quick Facts About The Mauna Kea Observatories
Earth’s Ideal Telescope Location There are a number of observatories and facilities located near the top of Hawaii’s Big Island of Mauna Kea including the famous Keck Observatory. The location…
Beginners Guide To Telescopes For Kids 🔭
Revealing The Universe Interested in learning about telescopes? Here you can enjoy reading about how they work and their different types. Since their invention in the early 1600’s, telescopes have…
What Is An Orbit & How Do They Work? ⧂
Orbits Explained Everything in space is in motion, so nearly every object is in orbit around another object! Orbits are the paths that objects take while speeding around a larger…
All Aboard To Experience ‘Zero G’! ✈
Feel Weightless Just Like In Space! If you love that brief feeling of weightlessness you get when riding on a roller coaster, then you’ll love taking a ride aboard a…
Facts On Earth’s Orbit, Seasons & Cycles ⧂
Spinning Through Space Earth is speeding around the Sun at over 107,000 kilometres an hour and swings closest to the Sun around Christmas time, but you’d never know it! Its…
Auroras | Fun Facts All About The Magical Polar Lights!
Ghostly Aurora! Known by various names such as the polar lights, aurora, northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), the aurora are the beautiful and ghostly natural lights…
Chelyabinsk Meteor – The Fireball Brighter Than The Sun!
Russian Meteor Explosion 💥 On February 15th 2013, a 20-metre wide near-Earth asteroid entered the atmosphere (undetected) travelling at 19 km/s and exploded in a huge fireball over Russia. The blast…
The Mysterious 1908 Tunguska Event And What Caused It
The Airburst That Flattened A Forest! 💥 On the morning of June 30th 1908, a light streaked across the Siberian skies and disappeared over the horizon. Minutes later a large…
Fun Facts About The Dinosaur Killing Chicxulub Crater
Earth-Shattering Impact! The Chicxulub crater is a buried impact crater (180 km wide) on the coast of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula that is believed to have caused widespread destruction and global…