Blog The Crew Dragon Demo-2 launch on Saturday: to be or not to be? May 29, 2020 The prestigious $1.2 million Shaw Prize 2020 goes to a British Astrophysicist May 21, 2020 Four ways to destroy the Universe May 19, 2020 How come Jupiter has a fuzzy core? May 12, 2020 Origami and how we use it to explore space May 04, 2020 The man who fell from the sky: Vladimir Komarov and the first space disaster April 23, 2020 Where do retired spacecraft go? April 21, 2020 There is no going straight in Space. How to send a spacecraft to Mercury. April 14, 2020 Rocket launch amidst pandemic: Expedition 63 to fly to the ISS tomorrow. April 08, 2020 Backyard stargazing: April 2020 April 06, 2020 Reflecting on the ongoing mass homeschooling and unschooling March 31, 2020 Cloudy with a chance of iron rain. What does it rain on other planets? March 23, 2020 Happy Birthday, Mr Percival Lowell! Thanks for Pluto and everything! March 16, 2020 Guided by the stars: Do animals use stars for navigation? March 08, 2020 Making a Perfect Space Party February 22, 2020 Will the light pollution from satellite constellations ruin the the dark sky? February 21, 2020 What’s on: February 2020 half term Space Events February 14, 2020 Reporting from Moving to Mars exhibition February 10, 2020 The Mystery of the Floating Astronauts: Is There No Gravity in Space? February 09, 2020 Satellite teamwork: ESA Solar Orbiter and NASA Parker Probe will study the Sun together! January 29, 2020 New Horizons: 14 years in Space! January 20, 2020 Women who changed science: Mary Somerville January 17, 2020 Exploding supergiants and the misterious case of the recent dimming of Betelgeuse January 05, 2020 ASTRO highlights of 2019 December 31, 2019 Christmas through the eyes of Astronomy: What was the Star of Bethlehem? December 27, 2019 European mission CHEOPS joins the quest to understand exoplanets December 19, 2019 Visit the Prague Astronomical Clock with WonderDome! December 12, 2019 WHAT’S ON: December 2019 Night Sky December 04, 2019 Is Space-Time discrete or continuous? GrailQuest mission might find out! November 27, 2019 You asked…What would happen to the Earth if the Sun turned into a black hole? November 17, 2019 It’s nearly there! Watch Mercury transit 2019 November 10, 2019 Open source planetarium software and free night sky apps for stargazers November 04, 2019 October 2019: half term space themed family fun October 27, 2019 Cosmic dinosaurs: globular clusters and their fate October 20, 2019 The exoplanet discovery behind the 2019 Noble Prize in Physics explained October 15, 2019 October in space dates October 07, 2019 Ask Wonderdome! September 30, 2019 The role of Astronomy in modern society September 23, 2019 Water vapor detected in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet September 15, 2019 How to become an astronomer September 08, 2019 How to build a planet out of pebbles and boulders September 03, 2019 How to talk to a far-away spacecraft: Deep Space Network August 27, 2019 AstroHistory of York: Goodricke, Pigott and variable stars August 21, 2019 August night sky: the Perseids and other stargazing events for the whole family August 11, 2019 Ten “must-read” books about space for the very young August 05, 2019 The ice giants and why they are so different July 31, 2019 Why can’t we see all 88 constellations at once? July 23, 2019 July Delta Aquariids and their peculiar origin July 16, 2019 Myths and facts about astronaut ice cream and other freeze-dried space food July 09, 2019 What if the Earth crashed into another planet? June 30, 2019 Light sailing: the future of interstellar travel or science fiction? June 23, 2019 Five reasons to put a space suit on when going on a space walk June 15, 2019 Two classic astronomical experiments that you could (almost) easily do yourself June 09, 2019 How fast can an atmosphere travel around its planet? “Normal” rotation on Earth vs superrotation on Venus. June 04, 2019 Webb Telescope Day for Wonderdome Mobile Planetarium May 28, 2019 What’s on this May 2019 half term: Space events and activities May 24, 2019 Enceladus, the icy moon that might harbour life May 20, 2019 Saving planet Earth: ways to tackle the carbon dioxide problem May 14, 2019 Tour of the 100m Effelsberg radio telescope May 06, 2019 Asteroids that grow tails (or everything we know about active asteroids) April 29, 2019 Lyrid meteor shower will peak tomorrow! Don’t miss! April 21, 2019 The place where they counted stars: the Old Bonn Observatory April 14, 2019 How to make an educational activity autism friendly and why it is important April 08, 2019 Speed of sound and what happens if you break the “speed limit” March 31, 2019 Seasons on Earth and other planets explained March 24, 2019 The search for Planet 9 goes on March 18, 2019 Orion up close March 10, 2019 How to determine your coordinates (latitude and longitude) without GPS March 03, 2019 Exploring our galactic neighbourhood: The Triangulum Galaxy M33 February 25, 2019 How long is a day on the inner planets? February 17, 2019 The Night Sky in February 2019 February 09, 2019 Great disasters in the history of spaceflight February 03, 2019 Cosmic monsters: searching for a star within a star (aka Thorne-Zytkow object) January 27, 2019 Space themed Birthday party? You can do it! January 20, 2019 “Space” coding for children January 13, 2019 The anatomy of the Milky Way Galaxy January 06, 2019 Space habitats of the future: living inside a spinning asteroid January 03, 2019 Space activities on Christmas holidays December 21, 2018 Weird Worlds 2: What goes around what in a multi-star system December 13, 2018 Weird Worlds 1: Planets in multiple star systems December 10, 2018 December 2018 meteor showers and where they come from December 02, 2018 The mystery of the North Star November 25, 2018 The World’s biggest radio telescopes November 18, 2018 Chasing the Moon …(or why the Moon rises and sets at a different time every night) November 11, 2018 Where are the Sun’s siblings? November 05, 2018 Are there rainbows on other planets and moons in Space? October 29, 2018 Rings around gas giants in the Solar System October 21, 2018 3-2-1… How and where to see a rocket take-off. October 14, 2018 It is going to rain stars this month: Draconins and Orionids October showers October 07, 2018 The last days of Dawn spacecraft September 12, 2018 “Infinite lives of Maisie Day” classroom activities inspired by book September 05, 2018 Stargazing events in September 2018 September 03, 2018 Astronomy for blind and visually impaired August 31, 2018 Do we really need to put telescopes in Space? August 26, 2018 Quick guide to astronomical planet symbols August 13, 2018 Perseid meteor shower 2018 August 05, 2018 Can I buy a star? July 27, 2018 Celebrating the 49th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing July 20, 2018 Parker Probe: the mission to solve the mystery of the Sun July 19, 2018 Girls only: the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy July 09, 2018 Upcoming total lunar eclipse and what it has to do with exoplanets July 02, 2018 Teaching about Space in Primary Schools: reasoning vs memorizing June 25, 2018 Asteroids, friends or foes? Part 2: friends! June 17, 2018 Asteroids, friends or foes? Part one: foes! June 14, 2018 Space Maths Infographic June 10, 2018 Exploring planet Mercury June 04, 2018 Learn about Space on May half term holidays! May 24, 2018 Searching for life on Europa May 18, 2018 Black Holes: the size matters! May 09, 2018 Mystery of the Moon: transient lunar phenomenon April 30, 2018 Celebrating Hubble Telescope’s 28 years in Space April 24, 2018 Women in Astronomy April 16, 2018 Astrolabe, the world’s oldest astronomical computer. April 08, 2018 Salyut 7: movie and reality March 31, 2018 Research missions to launch in Spring 2018 March 18, 2018 Planetarium visit and classroom space activities March 14, 2018 Stargazing in March 2018 March 04, 2018 Nobel Prize in Astronomy. Part 2. February 27, 2018 Nobel Prize in Astronomy. Part 1. February 26, 2018 Time zones: theory and practice February 12, 2018 Satellite navigation and and how it works February 08, 2018 Opportunity rover: 14 years on Mars and counting! January 25, 2018 Early Astronomical measurements January 22, 2018 Webb Telescope to unravel the mystery of brown dwarfs January 14, 2018 Great rocket scientists of the 20th century: Sergei Korolev January 08, 2018 January 2018 stargazing January 01, 2018 Where is my satellite? December 22, 2017 I spy…science facts in the book “The Jamie Drake Equation” December 18, 2017 How do we know that the Earth is not flat? December 15, 2017 Space maths December 03, 2017 Great astronomers of the 20th century: Chandrasekhar November 25, 2017 Leonid meteor shower 2017 November 15, 2017 Book review: “How I killed Pluto and why it had it coming” by Mike Brown November 13, 2017 Animals in Space November 10, 2017 Human journey to Mars. October 30, 2017
