Author: Chris

Uranus’ moons are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. To date 27 moons have been discovered around Uranus, those

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On the July 19th NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took 323 separate images of Saturn one  set of these captured the Earth as viewed from the dark side

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The rings of Saturn are composed of billions of icy particles ranging in size from tiny grains to kilometres across. There are 14 major divisions in Saturn’s

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These images are the original planet, sun and moon profile pictures I created for Space Facts before finalising on the current black background (removing the

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Here’s a list of my 5 favourite interactive space visualisations that are both fantastically put together and visualise a particularly cool aspect of space or

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The mean diameter of Jupiter is 138,346.5 km, the equatorial diameter being 142,984 km and the polar diameter being 133,709 km. The average diameter of

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Commander Chris Hadfield’s Twitter account has provided some fantastic moments from the nearly 6 month he has spent in space most recently with the unforgettable Space Oddity.

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Information on the Sun, the planets and the dwarf planets in our solar system in order from the Sun. Includes the class of satellite, surface

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I have come to the conclusion that not nearly enough films are set in space, I also have a feeling I have seen most of

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Well hasn’t this been an interesting week for discoveries, first a solar system with four suns was identified and now a planet in the closest

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This graphic shows off the relative sizes of the major bodies in the solar system and the order of the planets. It was originally intended

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A true colour version of the previous planets to scale graphic, with help from Don Mitchell’s fantastic Planet Palette. This version also includes a ruler

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