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