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Category Archives: Science Multimedia

New Horizons Probe: Projected Post-Pluto Path

Try saying that with a gob-stopper in your mouth! This is a pretty nice animation made from data of the Kuiper Belt objects which are currently candidates for the New […] Continue Reading »

Video from 5th anniversary of the Huygens probe landing on Titan

Just over seven years ago, on the 14th January 2005 at approximately 11:30 UTC, the Huygens probe (part of the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn) touched down on the surface of […] Continue Reading »

iPlayer radio programme about Comets

As alerted to us by LAS website user Brian on our Forums, this week’s episode of the Radio 4 “In Our Time” programme, hosted by Melvyn Bragg, covers the subject […] Continue Reading »

Amazing images of storms on Saturn

The image below, and those in the link, was taken by Cassini and published by NASA/JPL back in November 2012, however I hadn’t seen them before today. They show storms […] Continue Reading »

AstronomyCast audio podcast

There’s a great podcast called AstronomyCast which I’ve been listening to lately and I thought you all may be in interested in. You don’t need to have any fancy podcast […] Continue Reading »

Liverpool Astronomical Society

Sic Itur Ad Astra – Thus The Way To The Stars : 143 years of astronomy