The week which marked the end of February and the start of March brought along not one but two fun astronomical spectacles: the planet conjunction and the northern lights. In this article, Almudena Visser Velez explains the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.
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Pluto: A brief history
Remember the anagram: My Very Easy Method Just Sums Up Naming ..well, naming what? Pluto was officially demoted to the utterly humiliating status of a dwarf planet in 2006. Back before we utterly shattered its dreams of stardom (planetdom?), what was the history of our favourite dwarf? Little Pluto first burst into our consciousness in […]
Immaculate Misconceptions: Twinkle twinkle little LIE
Our Immaculate Misconceptions feature sees writer Kathryn Egerton, destroying our childhood nursery rhymes. No, stars do not twinkle – we’re all living a lie. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. A well known nursery rhyme, but when you look closer is it actually correct? Well, here comes science to ruin the rhyming couplets of […]