Welcome to Astronotes
Hello, I’m Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the Planetarium’s official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. We hope you will come here to learn what is hot and exciting, profound or even weird from worlds beyond ours . So that's the introduction out of the way, now on with the Universe!
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Hello Earth!
Posted on January 19, 2012 | No CommentsFewer than 600 people have ever seen our world from space and only a couple of dozen have travelled far enough away to seen the Earth as a planet against... -
Venus: Earth’s Sister Planet
Posted on January 17, 2012 | No CommentsVenus has always been regarded as Earth’s Sister Planet. After all, it can be the closest planet to us and it is nearly the same size as Earth. But how... -
Russia’s Rival to Apollo
Posted on November 25, 2011 | 2 CommentsA few years ago there was a vogue among historians to write about ‘counterfactuals’. A counterfactual examines the importance of an event for subsequent history by asking what if that... -
10 Animal Space Travellers
Posted on October 14, 2011 | No CommentsBefore Yuri Gagarin made the historic first orbit around the Earth in 1961, animals had already visited the unknown. They were used to collect medical data and to test the... -
Soyuz 11: The Truth About the Salyut 1 Space Disaster
Posted on June 22, 2011 | No CommentsIt is June 30 1971, and a ground crew in Kazakhstan are waiting to recover three cosmonauts from the Soyuz 11 spacecraft. The trio, the first space station crew, are... -
Vostok 1: Secrets of the first spaceflight
Posted on April 11, 2011 | 9 CommentsYuri Gagarin made history fifty years ago, in the midst of the Cold War, the USSR succeeded in putting him in space. Aspects of his mission were kept secret at... -
Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space
Posted on April 11, 2011 | 11 CommentsYuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut, paved the way for space exploration and truly went where no man had been before. He was the first human in space, Sinead McNicholl tells his...