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Author: Chris

Dr James O’Donoghue’s Space Animations

October 6, 2020 Chris Blog

Visualisations are great at explaining concepts it can be hard to understand from text alone. Some of the best space visualisations I’ve seen recently are

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Google Incorrect Planet Sizes

Google’s Planet Scale Mistake

July 31, 2019 Chris Blog

I’ve written before about Google showing planet information directly in its search results. Since then Google has begun to highlight information from particular websites more

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Star Trek

The Ultimate List of TV Shows set in Space or on Other Planets

July 17, 2019 Chris Blog

It’s been a while, but now the site redesign is done I can get back to writing nonsense about science fiction on the pretext it’s

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Io Moon Profile

Jupiter’s Galilean Moons (Profile Gifs)

June 30, 2016 Chris Blog

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter in the next few day after nearly five years in space. While it’s purpose is primarily to study

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The Planets and Moons of Star Wars

The Planets and Moons of Star Wars to Scale

December 4, 2015 Chris Blog

I like Star Wars, Star Wars is set in space, my website is about space, hence I made a Star Wars thing for the website.

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Planet Orbits

November 18, 2015 Chris Blog

An orbit is the path an object takes through space as it revolves around another object. While a planet travels in one direction, it is

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Pluto Information: size, strucutre, Difference from Sun, Moon orbits and moon size comparisons

Pluto Size, Composition, Distance from Sun & Moons

July 22, 2015 Chris Blog

Size: The New Horizons mission has verified that Pluto is the largest of the dwarf planets with a diameter 2,370 kilometres give or take a

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New Horizons

New Horizons Mission & Spacecraft Facts

June 18, 2015 Chris Blog

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is on a mission to collect data and images of the dwarf planet Pluto, its surrounding moons and other objects in the

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Pluto & Charon Orbit

Pictures of Pluto

May 1, 2015 Chris Blog

When the New Horizons spacecraft passes Pluto in 2015 it will be the furthest object from the Earth that has been examined up close, although

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Dawn Spacecraft Concept Art

Dawn Mission & Spacecraft Facts

February 18, 2015 Chris Blog

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is on a mission to explore the two largest objects in the asteroid belt the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres, gathering

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Ceres from Dawn Spacecraft

Pictures of Ceres

January 22, 2015 Chris Blog

Ceres will be the first dwarf planet seen up close when NASA’s Dawn spacecraft arrives on March 6th 2015. For now it has taken photos for navigational

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Viking 1

Mars Missions

October 22, 2014 Chris Blog

Since the first spacecraft was sent to Mars was launched in 1960, there have been at least 68 missions that have been launched to the

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