SPACE IS COMPLETELY SILENT
There is no atmosphere in space, which means that sound has no medium or way to travel to be heard. Astronauts use radios to stay in communication while in space, since radio waves can still be send and received.
THE HOTTEST PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IS 450 DEGREES C
Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system and has an average surface temperature of around 450 degrees. Interestingly Venus is not the closet planet to the sun - Mercury is closer but because Mercury has no atmosphere to regulate temperature it has a very large temperature fluctuation.
Space exploration is the use of astronomy and space technology to explore outer space. While the exploration of space is carried out mainly by astronomers with telescopes, its physical exploration is conducted both by uncrewed robotic space probes and human spaceflight.
Astronauts and cosmonauts on the space station stay busy. There's lots of work to operate the many science experiments on board. The crew also has to make sure that the station is in top shape, so they clean, check equipment, maintain and repair or replace broken equipment.
A telescope is a device used to observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation. Originally it was an optical instrument using lenses, curved mirrors, or a combination of both to observe distant objects – an optical telescope.
We are yet to see space tourism take off, but astronauts travelling to and from the International Space Station has almost become routine in the 48 years since people last set foot on the moon. New players in this space and the latest developments are making space travel in the next ten years increasingly more likely.
Virgin Galactic is a spaceflight company founded by Richard Branson and the Virgin Group conglomerate which retains an 11.9% stake through Virgin Investments Limited. It is headquartered in California, and operates from New Mexico.
Galileo Galilei
Galileo was a natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method. He also made revolutionary telescopic discoveries, including the four largest moons of Jupiter.
Edwin Hubble
Edwin Hubble, for whom the Hubble Space Telescope is named, was one of the leading astronomers of the twentieth century. His discovery in the 1920s that countless galaxies exist beyond our own Milky Way galaxy revolutionized our understanding of the universe and our place within it.
Professor Brian Schmidt
Schmidt has worked across many areas of Astronomy including supernovae, gamma ray Bursts, exo-planets, and metal poor stars. He was the lead scientist of the SkyMapper telescope from inception through to 2015. Professor Schmidt has previous served on the AAL Board from 2007-2015, and as its chair from 2013-2015.
