5 Facts About… Jupiter!

Let’s move on to the largest planet in our solar system, the great gas giant Jupiter. Jupiter is over twice as heavy as all the other planets in the Solar system put together. Jupiter is a gas giant planet, the largest in the solar system, made up of swirling gases Read more…

By Anna Taylor, 5 yearsMay 5, 2020 ago

Comets and Asteroids

8 Things you need to know about Comet Siding Spring

With the let-down of the much anticipated Comet ISON you could be feeling that you have had your quota of comets for a while, but within one year of comet ISON’s sad demise, we are to be visited by another comet, Comet Siding Spring. Unlike ISON it has not been Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 11 yearsMarch 21, 2014 ago

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

5 Facts About… Jupiter!

8 Things you need to know about Comet Siding Spring