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Astronomy Events – April 2011
by yaska77 The second of our monthly posts listing upcoming Astronomy events for the month of April. Here’s hoping we get clear skies for them! Saturday 2nd April – Moon at Apogee (406,655 km). The...
View ArticleVoyager to enter Interstellar Space
by yaska77 Over 30 years after they left Earth, NASA’s twin Voyager probes are now on the edge of our solar system, and are still working! Launched in the late 1970s to take advantage of a rare...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Neptune!
by foo77 Neptune has just completed its first orbit around the sun since its discovery on September 23rd 1846. With the planet being 2.8 billion miles from the sun that’s an astonishing 165 years to do...
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