Absolute Beginners No. 8: The phases of Venus
Paul Abel describes the observations you can make of our sister planet Venus, and explains the reasons for its varying position and brightness as it orbits the Sun.
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BAA members’ pages are now live on the BAA website
In recent months, the BAA’s Website Operations Team has been looking for ways to build a greater sense of online
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Jupiter and the Juno mission: the latest developments
NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which went into orbit around Jupiter on 2016 July 5, had its first operational close approach (‘perijove’)
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‘End of mission’ for the Rosetta spacecraft
Twelve years after its launch on 2004 March 2 and two years after taking up its orbit around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko,
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