by Colin Stuart | Feb 5, 2015 | Astronomy news, Uncategorised
Unlike our Moon, which is about one quarter the size of Earth, Phobos, the largest of Mars’s two moons is tiny – just 25 kilometres across. That makes it smaller than London. In this new image, released from The Mars Orbiter, Phobos is seen passing in...
by Colin Stuart | Feb 2, 2015 | Astronomy news, Uncategorised
Saturn is a lot of people’s favourite planet due to its resplendent rings. Some of those rings – made of house-sized chunks of ice – have recently been snapped by the Cassini space probe alongside the planet’s diminutive moon Epimetheus (just...
by Colin Stuart | Jan 27, 2015 | Astronomy news, Uncategorised
NASA has released new data from yesterday’s cosmic fly-past when asteroid 2004 BL86 zoomed past the Earth at a slightly greater distance than our Moon. Those observations appear to reveal the asteroid has a moon of its own. The main asteroid is 325 metres across...
by Colin Stuart | Jan 22, 2015 | Astronomy news, Uncategorised
It was the hottest news in astronomy in 2014 – the arrival of Rosetta and the landing of Philae on comet 67P stole the show. The scientists behind the amazing mission are busy analysing the data acquired so far. We are now waiting to see if Philae can be roused...
by Colin Stuart | Jan 20, 2015 | Astronomy news, Uncategorised
The latest image from NASA’s Dawn mission has revealed the same unexplained white spot observed by the Hubble Space Telescope as far back as 2003. Its true nature is one of many mysteries the mission hopes to resolve when it sidles up to the asteroid later this...