This month . . . The Light Year. A unit of distance, not time. A light year is an astronomical measurement of the distance light travels...

So, what is a dwarf planet …… Dwarf planets share many of the same characteristics as planets with one significant difference … a planet...

As darkness descends around the end of December into early January evenings, a star within the Southern Cross with a uniquely Australian...

DID YOU KNOW This month . . . The Kuiper Belt. Home to short period comets and icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system. The ...

The dictionary defines binary as “composed of or involving two things”, so a binary star is a system composed of two stars which orbit ...

There are two equinoxes every year. The March equinox also known as the autumnal equinox, and the September equinox or the spring...

This month . . . Artificial Satellites. From the launch of Sputnik which lead to the start of the Space Race between the Soviet Union...

The disc shaped asteroid belt is located between Mars and Jupiter at a distance ranging from 329-478 million kilometres from the Sun. ...

WHAT IS A SOLSTICE ? A solstice is a natural astronomical event during which one of the Earth’s hemispheres is at maximum tilt away from...

This month . . . Auroras. Named for the Roman goddess of the dawn. Auroras are caused by the collision of energetically charged particles...