Know the Moon – Copernicus
Copernicus is a huge crater easily visible with binoculars and in this video we have a close look at it. The crater has rays of ejector material and a complex terraced crater wall, all great to explore.
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Know the Moon – Yerkes
In this video we fly down to the Mare Crisium and check out the lava filled crater called Yerkes, the lava has long ago cooled leaving this almost fully buried crater. Then we go and have a look at a crater on Earth.
Know the Moon – Ukert
In this video of our know the Moon series we visit the unusually shaped crater called Ukert.
Know the Moon – Montes Alpes
In this video we fly around the Montes Alpes on the edge of the huge Mare Imbrium and have a look at the mountains that make up this impressive range.
Know the Moon – Aristillus
In this video we visit the huge impact crater on the Moon called Aristillus. This crater is 55km across and nearly 4km deep. It is easily visible with binoculars.
Know the Moon – Plato
In this video we fly down to the surface of the Moon and have a close look at the crater called Plato.
Know the Moon – Vallis Schroteri
This video is about exploring the Vallis Schroteri, or Schroters Valley on the Moon.
Know the Moon – Rima Hyginus
In this video we visit Rima Hyginus which contains a suspected volcanic caldera.
See you on Mars!
We interviewed Mitch Schulte, Mars Exploration Program Scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC and NZ Astrobiology Network’s official adviser about what it is like to work on Mars.
Star Safari in May and June 2021
A tour of our favourite celestial objects in the night sky that you can see in May and June 2021 from Wairarapa, New Zealand one of the darkest places in the world, where the Milky Way stretches from one horizon to the other. A favourite this month, quasar 3C – 273 and other space oddities,
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…space is one of the most important forces shaping the human mind” – and navigation is a way to organising this space, our environment. M.R.O’Connor
A Book About Neutron Stars
Neutron Stars by Katia Moskvitch is the brilliant story of our understanding of neutron stars, not just a book about neutron stars.
Seeing 2.4 Billion Years Into The Past
Travel 2.4 billion light years back in time to see a strange object: Quasar 3C-273. With your own eyes.
How May got its name
May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars a month of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. It is named after the Greek goddess, Maia or Roman goddess of fertility, Bona Dea. Old English – Maius, Latin name – Maius mensis – Month of Maia, Old French – Mai. Maia was one of the Pleiades and the mother of Hermes. Maia is the daughter of Atlas and Pleione the Oceanid and is the oldest of the seven Pleiades. Because they were daughters of Atlas, they were also called the Atlantides. For the Romans, it embodied the concept of growth and as her name was thought to be related to the comparative adjective maius, maior “larger, greater”. Convallaria majalis, the Lily of the Valley, is named after it and it is the flower of May in Europe.
What to see in the night sky – a focus on Canis Major
The stars around Sirius make up the constellation of Canis Major which has some really nice open clusters to view through binoculars or a telescope.
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