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Space related news and insights from starlearner.com the education accredited site for learning more about your favourite hobby...
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The Star Learner UK tour for writing up controlled assessments is complete!

Well done to our distance learners!  Our days for writing up controlled assessments have gone so well.  We travelled the country to keep the distances down that our students had to travel. ...

20 apr 12

Star Learner relocates to Poole

After perfect night skies in Herefordshire, we have now set up just a mile and a half from the centre of Bournemouth.  Having written monthly night sky articles for the Docklands area of London,...

20 apr 12

Rest in peace Steve Jobs.

We are very saddened to hear the news of Steve Jobs passing. He was a true visionary and his Apple products have revolutionised the way we work and communicate with each other.Last year we made Starl...

06 oct 11

See a Supernova!

A supernova can be seen in the sky with good binoculars or a telescope.  The star blew up recently in M101, a faint galaxy in the Messier catalogue.  The supernova is named SN2011fe.  ...

23 sep 11

Incredible results: Starlearner student achieves highest result in all of the country!

Incredible results all round - so chuffed to report that ALL of our Starlearner Distance Learners achieved a grade B and above! Not only that, special mention needs to go to Liz Walker, who comp...

12 sep 11

Lanzarote viewing...

Little Miss M was in Lanzarote last week and saw this brilliant image in a restaurant taken by none other than NASA. Such a good picture of the island. She was happy to report back that there were pl...

20 jun 11

Google celebrates the Lunar Eclipse

Did you view the lunar eclipse last night? I hope you all saw a glimpse of it despite the not so perfect conditions over here in the UK... it only ever occurs on the night of a full moon when the Ear...

16 jun 11

NASA image picks of the month!

Well its been very hectic here at Starlearner but everything is going well for the students and I thought it was high time that we profiled some more of NASAs amazing imagery...Sunset over South Amer...

23 may 11

Good luck Starlearner students!

Well, your hard work has been done and all of the controlled assessments have now been filtered through me and sent off to the moderators.  I have piles of big envelopes building up from sc...

11 may 11

View the exoplanet Cancri e for the next two months...

In the news today more details were revealed of the super-exotic exoplanet called Cancri e. It is 8 times as large as Earth and is the densest, most solid planet found anywhere to date. A human would...

02 may 11

Virgin Galactic is recruiting pilots - apply now!

To our US readers, if youre a pilot with a deep interest in space or have NASA experience then Virgin needs you! They are now recruiting for the worlds first three commercial spaceline pilots for the...

19 apr 11

Google celebrates Yuri Gagarins 50th anniversary as the first man in space.

Check out Google today! Very pleased to see that theyve honoured the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to ever enter space. The USSR pipped the US to the post on this one and he orbit...

12 apr 11

Small camera - BIG results!

Last month I took little Ms advice and purchased a small camera to transport around easily with me to different Starlearner events. I went for the Canon Powershot SX210IS and I havent looked back.Ove...

11 apr 11

Four iconic images from NASA - Endeavour, Discovery, Mars and Mercury!

Wow! This is Endeavour attached to its external fuel tanks ready and in position for its final space flight penned in for April 19th from the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. It looks majestic in its f...

05 apr 11

Meteor Marvel - The Barringer Crater

Astronomy Magazine has an excellent article this issue on meteorites hitting the Earth - which is always a possibility but hopefully with todays technology well have a bit more warning of where ...

01 apr 11

Super Moon - too big to miss!

Well theres nothing like a super Moon to bring everyone together worldwide with their cameras.It was stunning to watch the perigee moon travelled 30,000km closer to Earth (356,575km away) as its been...

22 mar 11

This is AMAZING - well worth watching!

Last one of these then I promise Ill move onto something new... although you have to admit that this is incredible. Paranal Observatory again shot from inside with a fish eye lens by Stephane Gu...

10 mar 11

Discover time lapses this lunchbreak on Youtube!

Everyone knows that logging onto Youtube uses up serious amounts of time, but one thing that I cant get enough of searching for on there is time lapse movies that people have made of observatories. T...

09 mar 11

Incredible spacewalk images from NASA of astronauts Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew

Anchored to Canadarm2 mobile foot restraints, NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew participated in the STS-133 missions second spacewalk to perform valuable construction and maintenance on the ...

07 mar 11

Sign up now for the next Astronomy & Spaceguard Experience break at Holme Lacy House Hotel.

Well today finds me busy working on the content for our next Starlearner Experience Break - weve teamed up with Warner Hotels at their amazing Holme Lacy House Hotel resort in Herefordshire to give g...

02 mar 11

Young kids or adult kids - Redshift is our astronomy app of the month - get orbiting planets now!

Redshifts app takes your outdoor viewing with your family to the next level - To be able to walk inside or have your iPad with you on the viewing session (screen light turned down low of co...

22 feb 11 1 person likes this

Act NOW and be part of history on the Mars mission.

Me and Mrs M are off to Mars - well our names are and wed like to have all of our Starlearner students with us!Its free and so simple to do and a once in a lifetime opportunity, find five minutes thi...

18 feb 11 1 person likes this

Talk to NASA today at 4pm!

On February 14th NASA was given its proposed budget for future spending for existing and new programs and projects. Today NASAs Chief Scientist Waleed Abdalati and Chief Technologist Bobby Braun...

16 feb 11

Mars 500 Mission goes for its first walk on the surface of Mars today in Moscow...

Sky News has just broken the story of the six man cosmonauts simulated trip to Mars mission Mars 500 which began in June last year, and today three of the cosmonauts left their capsule for the first ...

14 feb 11

No hearts but astronomy love all the same - failing a new telescope we want these...

Valentines Day inspired goodies for the astronomy lover in your life...These can all be found on Cafe Press.

14 feb 11

Still time to be Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011...

Get viewing and get snapping - the annual competition launched in January and people all over the world are already submitting entries but everyones still in with a chance until the closing date for ...

09 feb 11 1 person likes this

54 more planetary candidates - thank you Kepler

The Kepler Mission was brought about with the aim of finding more planets in our universe around the same size as Earth where water could exist in a liquid form on their surface.Last week NASA reveal...

08 feb 11 1 person likes this

Get clued up on where and when to look for solar eclipses in 2011...

If you missed the annular eclipse on 4th January this year, heres some pictures to whet your appetite for the next three partial eclipses this year....1st June in East Asia, North America and Iceland...

02 feb 11 1 person likes this

Exciting times with Sky At Night Magazine...

Well after starlearner.com being featured in last issues article on how hobbyists can learn more about astronomy were making plans to get involved with their April edition (out March) which is going ...

01 feb 11 1 person likes this

Book your holidays now to Sark the Dark Island!

Well I know where I want to go for my next holiday - just got to convince Mrs M...Sark, one of the Channel Islands between England and France, has been designated as the worlds first dark sky island ...

01 feb 11 1 person likes this

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