Space Night
England (North East)
08. 07. 11
6.30pm - 8.00pm
A special event for families and teachers interested in space.
Enjoy an evening of space related activities, including a screening in our planetarium (the largest in the North East).
Local Astronomical Societies, university departments and outreach providers will also be present on the night.
Venue: Life Science Centre, Newcastle.
[b]Free to attend[/i] - tickets issued on a first-come-first-served basis.
Events Upcoming events
- June 2012
- Armagh Planetarium’s Great Balloon Race (05.06.12)
- Searching for the new worlds - from planets to subatomic particles (09.06.12)
- The James Webb Telescope - Space as a Context for Teaching Science - part 1 (10.06.12 - 12.06.12)
- The National STEM Centre - Annual Primary Mathematics Conference (11.06.12)
- Annual Meeting for Teachers of Physics in Schools & Colleges (14.06.12)
- Media and Writing Space (14.06.12)
- Packing for Mars – Life In Space (19.06.12)
- The National STEM Centre - Annual Secondary Mathematics Conference (21.06.12)
- CPD - Physics for Non Specialists (22.06.12)
- European Space Camp (24.06.12 - 01.07.12)
- Year 10 Careers Event (25.06.12)
- Taster Day - Physics (27.06.12)
- Taster Day - Astrophysics (28.06.12)
- July 2012
- European Space Camp (24.06.12 - 01.07.12)
- Year 10 Careers Event (02.07.12)
- Physics Academy (02.07.12 - 06.07.12)
- CPD - Physics for Specialists (04.07.12)
- ZooTeach (05.07.12)
- CPD - Chemistry (06.07.12)
- Train as a Jedi at Armagh Planetarium (07.07.12 - 08.07.12)
- The ESA summer workshop for teachers 2012 (10.07.12 - 13.07.12)
- CPD - Physics for Non Specialists (11.07.12)
- CPD - Applied and BTEC Science (11.07.12)
- Careers Advisors event (12.07.12)
- Pinhole Camera Workshop (14.07.12 - 15.07.12)
- Space School UK 13-15yrs (29.07.12 - 03.08.12)
- August 2012
- Space School UK 13-15yrs (29.07.12 - 03.08.12)
- Space School UK 16-18yrs (05.08.12 - 12.08.12)
- October 2012
Previous events
- May 2012
- April 2012
- A Night with the Stars (24.04.12)
- Packing for Mars – Life in Space (25.04.12)
- March 2012
- ASE Scotland Annual Conference 2012. (02.03.12 - 03.03.12)
- The Royal Society of Engineering - The 2012 International Lecture and Dinner (05.03.12)
- CPD - Astronomy in the Classroom (07.03.12)
- Titan is Coming to Armagh Planetarium! (10.03.12 - 11.03.12)
- Exploring Mars and the Universe Using Lego (12.03.12)
- Physics Teacher Seminar Series: Condensed Matter Physics (13.03.12)
- Reviewing the Science Curriculum - part of the Westminster Education Forum National Curriculum Seminar Series (13.03.12)
- Liverpool Telescope: a Giant Robotic Eye on the Sky (15.03.12)
- Particle Physics Masterclass (21.03.12)
- CPD - Physics for Specialists (23.03.12)
- CPD - Physics for Non Specialists (27.03.12)
- Exploring Mars Alongside Bridget, the Mars Rover (27.03.12)
- LEGO® Calling All Mars Explorers (29.03.12)
- February 2012
- Faulkes Telescope and National Schools' Observatory training workshop (03.02.12)
- European Astrofest 2012 (10.02.12 - 11.02.12)
- Planning Science in a Creative Curriculum: Space (24.02.12)
- Astronomy workshop for teachers of A-level Physics (24.02.12)
- 'Is There Anyone Out There?' free CPD day for primary teachers (24.02.12)
- Discover the Cosmos Teacher Training Workshop – free teacher training event (29.02.12)
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- Faulkes Telescope and National Schools' Observatory training workshop (04.11.11)
- Cosford (05.11.11 - 06.11.11)
- Dark Sky Discovery Project Regional launch (10.11.11)
- Planning Science in a Creative Curriculum: Space (22.11.11)
- Starmaker: The Philosophy of Olaf Stapledon (23.11.11)
- October 2011
- September 2011
- Artists in Space (01.09.11)
- Pluto: An Enigmatic World' (01.09.11)
- The Mars Rovers (01.09.11)
- The search for the tenth planet (01.09.11)
- British Astronomical Association Autumn Weekend Meeting (02.09.11 - 04.09.11)
- Big Telescopes (02.09.11)
- Exoplanets: The search for New Earths (02.09.11)
- 66th Annual General Meeting of the British Interplanetary Society (03.09.11)
- Weathering Solar Storms (05.09.11)
- Observing Techniques (05.09.11)
- 3D Astronomy (05.09.11)
- University of Keele Observatory Open Night (06.09.11)
- The Peter Hammerton Memorial Lecture: 'Is there life out there?' (06.09.11)
- Moon Study / Mars Missions (06.09.11)
- Unveiling the Sun (06.09.11)
- From the Big Bang to what? A short history of time (07.09.11)
- The first galaxies (08.09.11)
- Apollo 13: The Longest Hour (09.09.11 - 10.09.11)
- The origins of the constellations (09.09.11)
- Hydrogen (09.09.11)
- The cooling Universe and infrared astronomy (09.09.11)
- Lochaber to the Cosmos (09.09.11)
- Galaxies in Massive Clusters (09.09.11)
- Neptune, one orbit on (09.09.11)
- Apollo 13: The Longest Hour (10.09.11)
- Stellar Types (12.09.11)
- Planetary Nebulae with Binary Central Stars (12.09.11)
- August 2011
- Constellations (01.08.11)
- Apollo 15: The Wonder of the Unknown at Hadley Appenine (02.08.11)
- University of Keele Observatory Open Night (02.08.11)
- Supermassive Black Holes (05.08.11)
- University of Keele Observatory Open Afternoon (06.08.11)
- Mercury, A Relative Planet (08.08.11)
- Radio Astronomy (09.08.11)
- Modern Alchemy - Exploding Stars in the Lab (10.08.11)
- Rosetta on the Road (12.08.11)
- The Mars Rovers (16.08.11)
- Engineering Week: Rocket Science (17.08.11)
- The Universe through many eyes (27.08.11)
- July 2011
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - KS3 & 4 Biology (01.07.11)
- FREE Space and Astronomy Day (Primary) (01.07.11)
- UK Space Conference (04.07.11 - 05.07.11)
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - KS3 & 4 Chemistry (05.07.11)
- ESERO-UK Space Education Day (05.07.11)
- Café Scientifique - Twinkle, twinkle, little star. (06.07.11)
- Space Night (08.07.11)
- Planning Science in a Creative Curriculum: Space (11.07.11)
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - KS3 & 4 Physics (13.07.11)
- Astrophysics (13.07.11)
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - BTEC and GCSE Applied Science (14.07.11)
- June 2011
- Sir William Herschel (06.06.11)
- Impacts from Comets and Asteroids (06.06.11)
- How did galaxies form? The effect of dark on the light (06.06.11)
- Icy Worlds (06.06.11)
- University of Keele Observatory Open Night (07.06.11)
- When will we make contact? (07.06.11)
- Mars before the Space Age (07.06.11)
- North Staffordshire Astronomical Society (07.06.11)
- Scottish Space School CPD Event for Teachers (15.06.11)
- Exoplanets: The search for planets beyond our solar system (15.06.11)
- Space as a context for teaching science (19.06.11 - 21.06.11)
- Hubble in Orbit: Two Decades and Counting (23.06.11)
- FREE Space and Astronomy Day (Secondary) (30.06.11)
- May 2011
- University of Keele Observatory Open Night (07.05.11)
- The Fates of the Most Massive Stars (09.05.11)
- 'South Pacific Solar Eclipse' and 'Yuri Gagarin' (09.05.11)
- 'Diving for WIMPs: Neutrino Astrophysics and the ANTARES Project (09.05.11)
- Asteroids and NEOs (09.05.11)
- Saturn and its moons (09.05.11)
- Two Amazing Moons (09.05.11)
- Secrets of the Universe: How we discovered the Cosmos (10.05.11)
- Latest results from Cassini & Huygens (10.05.11)
- The Lone Ranger (11.05.11)
- How I wonder what you are - the birth, life and death of stars (11.05.11)
- 'Uranus, Herschel's planet: the history and discovery of Uranus' - the Gerry Lacey Memorial Lecture (12.05.11)
- Exoplanet Detection (12.05.11)
- When planets cross the Sun (12.05.11)
- Variable Stars (13.05.11)
- Solar Sailing (13.05.11)
- 21st Century Telescopes (13.05.11)
- Rediscovering Schiaparelli's Canals (13.05.11)
- University of Keele Observatory Open Night (14.05.11)
- The Campaign for Dark Skies (15.05.11)
- Robert Cormack Bequest Meeting (16.05.11)
- Europa Jupiter System Mission (16.05.11)
- Probing the Core of Andromeda (17.05.11)
- Observatories Around the World (18.05.11)
- Robert Burnham Jnr and the Lowell Observatory (18.05.11)
- "Astronaut training: the Columbus laboratory" by Dr Gail Iles (19.05.11)
- Biggest Questions in Cosmology (19.05.11)
- The Sun (20.05.11)
- April 2011
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - KS3 & 4 Physics (05.04.11)
- Mars Rover Challenge - Educator Event (05.04.11)
- YuriGagarin50 (12.04.11)
- Yuri's Night (12.04.11)
- Light and darkness in the accelerating Universe (12.04.11)
- Open Dome Event - Orion Nebula - How could we miss that one? (15.04.11)
- 2011 Space Academy Teachers Conference (16.04.11 - 18.04.11)
- RAS National Astronomy Meeting 2011 (NAM 2011) (17.04.11 - 21.04.11)
- University of Keele Observatory Open Night (19.04.11)
- 'On Top of the World - the 2008 North Pole and Solar Eclipse Expedition' (19.04.11)
- Yuri Gagarin and the Soviet Space Programme (21.04.11)
- University of Keele Observatory Open Night (26.04.11)
- Art and Astronomy (29.04.11)
- March 2011
- "Dark Matter" by Dr Phil James (01.03.11)
- Rocket Launcher Make and Take (02.03.11)
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - KS3 & 4 Biology (03.03.11)
- The Big Bang (10.03.11 - 12.03.11)
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - KS3 & 4 Chemistry (10.03.11)
- Astrophysics (11.03.11)
- Rocket Launcher Make and Take (16.03.11)
- Open Dome Event - What's that? - Gone in the blink of an eye (24.03.11)
- Eyes on the stars - Space as inspiration (30.03.11)
- "Star Formation: A turbulent tale" by Dr Rene Oudmaijer (31.03.11)
- February 2011
- AstroFest 2011 (04.02.11 - 05.02.11)
- Scared of Science? (07.02.11)
- CubeSat Challenge Workshop (14.02.11)
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - BTEC and GCSE Applied Science (17.02.11)
- Open Dome Event - The Dark Arts of Astronomy (28.02.11)
- January 2011
- The Association for Science Education (ASE) Annual Conference 2011 (05.01.11 - 08.01.11)
- Astronaut selection process and training (11.01.11)
- Dragster Racers - Make and Take (20.01.11)
- Free training workshop for the new STAR Centre in Keighley (26.01.11)
- "Weathering solar storms" by Dr Jim Wild (28.01.11)
- December 2010
- "The unknowns of particle physics" by Prof. Mark Lancaster (08.12.10 - 08.11.10)
- KS4 & KS5 Earth and Environmental Science INSET (10.12.10)
- "Exploring the Universe" by Dr Andy Newsam (10.12.10)
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - KS3 & 4 Chemistry (14.12.10)
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - KS3 & 4 Physics (15.12.10)
- November 2010
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - KS3 & 4 Biology (04.11.10)
- Deep Space resources for S1-S3 (06.11.10)
- FREE ESA Herschel Space Observatory INSET Session (09.11.10)
- Association for Science Education West of England Region Meeting: 'Learning Beyond...' (13.11.10)
- Faulkes telescope in the classroom (16.11.10)
- Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA) Regional Meeting (25.11.10)
- Black holes and spin offs (25.11.10)
- LUNCH HOUR LECTURE: Light and Darkness in the Accelerating Universe (25.11.10)
- Fuchs Foundation Schools Event: 'Antarctica - Mars on Earth' (26.11.10)
- The Cosmic Gift of Neutron Stars (29.11.10)
- "The unknowns of particle physics" by Prof. Mark Lancaster (08.12.10 - 08.11.10)
- October 2010
- World Space Week (04.10.10 - 10.10.10)
- Your Universe (15.10.10 - 17.10.10)
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - BTEC and GCSE Applied Science (18.10.10)
- September 2010
- STEM Forum Event (27.09.10)
- June 2010
