Quadrantid Meteor Shower 2024
- 29th Dec 2023
- Author: Team Discovery (edited: Dhara Patel)
In 2024, the Quadrantid meteor shower peaks on the night of 3-4 January with up to 110 meteors per hour.
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NASA What’s Happening in Space in 2024
- 28th Dec 2023
- Author: Alex Thompson
Are you ready for arguably the biggest year for space in over fifty years?
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National Space Centre Ursid Meteor Shower 2023
- 13th Dec 2023
- Author: Team Discovery (edited: Dhara Patel)
In December, the Ursid meteor shower peaks on the night of 22-23 December with 5-10 meteors an hour.
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National Space Centre Geminid Meteor Shower 2023
- 11th Dec 2023
- Author: Team Discovery (edited: Dhara Patel)
In 2023, the Geminid meteor shower peaks on the night of 14 December into the early hours of 15 December, with up to 120 meteors per hour.
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ESA Beagle 2 - 20 years later
- 6th Dec 2023
- Author: Ed Turner
20 years ago, Beagle 2 (a feat of British engineering) journeyed to Mars but didn’t phone home to say it landed. What happened to Beagle 2?
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NASA Space Highlights 2023
- 6th Dec 2023
- Author: Alex Thompson
2023 was a Lucy-JUICEy kind of year for space, let’s look back at some of the highlights!
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NASA/ JPL- Caltech/ASU/Peter Rubin Psyche Mission
- 26th Sep 2023
- Author: Elspeth Lewis
The Psyche mission will study an asteroid that may be very similar to the core of the Earth and other rocky planets.
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NASA/Johns Hopkins APL DART: The First Asteroid Deflection Mission
- 27th Sep 2022
- Author: Catherine Muller
Launched on 24 November 2021, NASA’s DART Mission to asteroid Dimorphos is the first test of Earth-defence technology.
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NASA, ESA, and J. Nichols (University of Leicester) The Planets: Jupiter
- 26th Sep 2022
- Author: Edward Turner
What Juno about Jupiter? Your one stop shop for everything you need to know about the king of the planets.
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NASA William and Caroline Herschel
- 25th Aug 2022
- Author: Edward Turner
A brief insight into the lives and discoveries of the Herschel siblings, William and Caroline.
