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- May 2013
- National Schools' Observatory is recruiting (08. 05. 13)
- NASA MAVEN haiku (09. 05. 13)
- Opportunities in Europe for secondary science and mathematics teachers (14. 05. 13)
- The James Webb Telescope - Space as a Context for Teaching Science (15. 05. 13)
- Deadline extended for UK CanSat competition (23. 05. 13)
- April 2013
- March 2013
- Space for Sustainability Award (01. 03. 13)
- UK CanSat Competition (11. 03. 13)
- Was there life on Mars? (19. 03. 13)
- Official launch of the Higher Apprenticeship in Space Engineering (20. 03. 13)
- ESA Summer workshop for teachers (21. 03. 13)
- Cassini Scientist for a Day 2012 Competition - Results (25. 03. 13)
- February 2013
- Antarctic Search for Meteorites (04. 02. 13)
- The James Webb Telescope – Space as a Context for Teaching Science (05. 02. 13)
- Asteroids and comets in the sky (13. 02. 13)
- Government and industry team up to fund 500 Masters degrees in aerospace engineering (22. 02. 13)
- The Google Science Fair 2013 has launched! (22. 02. 13)
- Competition to name the ESA mascot (25. 02. 13)
- Robot helpers for Space Station mock-up (25. 02. 13)
- The Open University tours the Universe in 60 seconds (26. 02. 13)
- January 2013
- Evaluation of the European Space Education Resource Office Report available on the National STEM Centre eLibrary (02. 01. 13)
- Royal Mail stamps celebrate Britain’s contribution to space exploration (03. 01. 13)
- Space and astronomy in the primary classroom (04. 01. 13)
- Space for technicians? The role of technicians in the space industry (04. 01. 13)
- Stargazing LIVE 2013 (08. 01. 13)
- ESERO-UK highlights Stargazing Live as an inspiration for STEM (10. 01. 13)
- Galileo Teacher Training Programme (14. 01. 13)
- Discover the Cosmos on 8 Feb 2013 (14. 01. 13)
- December 2012
- November 2012
- The Arthur C Clarke Awards, 2012 (08. 11. 12)
- Mission X 2013 – deadline for registrations 23 November (08. 11. 12)
- Solar eclipse 2012 (13. 11. 12)
- Government pledges an extra £60 million to Europe’s space programme (22. 11. 12)
- New Future Morph Space Theme (23. 11. 12)
- Science Learning Centre course on Astrophysics (23. 11. 12)
- 2013 lecture – defying gravity: make physics your launch pad (28. 11. 12)
- "It's life, Jim..." but not where we would normally expect it (29. 11. 12)
- October 2012
- Astrology vs. astronomy (01. 10. 12)
- Humans in Space Youth Art Competition (01. 10. 12)
- UK Space Design Competition 2013 (02. 10. 12)
- 'Astronaut training' to blast off at schools across the UK (03. 10. 12)
- Celebrating the use of Space to enrich teaching and learning in the UK – details from the conference (05. 10. 12)
- Tweet the Expert! - World Space Week 4th-10th October 2012 (06. 10. 12)
- Cassini Scientist for a Day Competition (09. 10. 12)
- Odysseus - a space competition for schools (11. 10. 12)
- UK Space Agency holiday card competition for primary schools (19. 10. 12)
- Classroom science: Felix Baumgartner’s jump from space (22. 10. 12)
- Hands on space education opportunities at the European Space Expo in London (23. 10. 12)
- University of York Outreach Officer post in Department of Physics (29. 10. 12)
- New Zooniverse projects – Bat Detective and Click to Cure (30. 10. 12)
- Ian Taylor appointed Chairman of the National Space Academy Steering Group (31. 10. 12)
- September 2012
- YouTube Space Lab Live Broadcast of Space Experiments (13. 09. 12)
- Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE joins the ESERO-UK team of Space Ambassadors (14. 09. 12)
- ESA Summer Teacher Conference (17. 09. 12)
- Spin Your Thesis! in 2013 (19. 09. 12)
- Students Design Missions to the Giant Planets (21. 09. 12)
- New Space Engineering Course launches at National Space Academy and Loughborough College (24. 09. 12)
- New National programme - Higher Apprenticeships in Space Engineering (24. 09. 12)
- World Space Week 2012 (25. 09. 12)
- Curiosity on Mars sparks curiosity in the classroom (26. 09. 12)
- Patrick Moore Medal (26. 09. 12)
- Ways to improve, increase or enhance the use of space as a context for STEM teaching and learning (27. 09. 12)
- August 2012
- Curiosity lands on Mars (06. 08. 12)
- Registrations for FIRST LEGO League Competition is now open (13. 08. 12)
- Space for All - Community Funding Scheme 2012/13 (13. 08. 12)
- Mars rover begins to rove (24. 08. 12)
- Two Professors in Space (Education) (31. 08. 12)
- July 2012
- The Higgs is here (probably) (05. 07. 12)
- ESERO-UK Conference: Celebrating the use of Space to enrich teaching and learning in the UK (06. 07. 12)
- Meteosat launched to maintain Europe's weather services (09. 07. 12)
- Mars Science Laboratory (19. 07. 12)
- Hubble discovers new Pluto moon (20. 07. 12)
- Five telescopes for educational purposes (24. 07. 12)
- Science on Stage Application deadline - 30th July (25. 07. 12)
- June 2012
- Glamorgan University astronomers boost ESA’s asteroid hunt (07. 06. 12)
- James Webb Space Telescope as a context for classroom teaching (21. 06. 12)
- Will.i.am talks about STEM education and beaming back songs from Mars (25. 06. 12)
- Astronauts under pressure (26. 06. 12)
- China to send first woman astronaut into space (26. 06. 12)
- Andre Kuipers returning home from the International Space Station (28. 06. 12)
- May 2012
- JUICE is Europe’s next large science mission (04. 05. 12)
- Loughborough College launches Space Engineering A-level programme (08. 05. 12)
- Balloons and paradoxes (09. 05. 12)
- The Transit of Venus (14. 05. 12)
- ESERO-UK visit to Jodrell Bank (16. 05. 12)
- The ESA summer workshop for teachers 2012 (18. 05. 12)
- The search is on for UK’s youngest innovators (18. 05. 12)
- Dragon capsule docked with the International Space Station (29. 05. 12)
- The largest radio telescope ever built (30. 05. 12)
- Felix Baumgartner has made his first test jump from space (31. 05. 12)
- April 2012
- Royal Observatory telescope to be relocated to Canterbury (04. 04. 12)
- NASA Mars Orbiter catches tornado in action (10. 04. 12)
- International Day of Human Space Flight (12. 04. 12)
- Earth Day – huge for us but insignificant in the universe? (19. 04. 12)
- Mission-X 2012: mission accomplished (20. 04. 12)
- UK and Japan commit to greater collaboration on space (25. 04. 12)
- Asteroid mining – expensive pie in the sky? (30. 04. 12)
- March 2012
- Titan and Prometheus dwarfed by giant Saturn (01. 03. 12)
- Meteor fireball seen across the UK (05. 03. 12)
- ESERO-UK Editorial in ASE School Science Review (08. 03. 12)
- Photographing the International Space Station (ISS) (08. 03. 12)
- We Have Lift Off! (14. 03. 12)
- How to see five planets in one night over the UK (14. 03. 12)
- Angry Birds in Space (15. 03. 12)
- ‘Can-do’ Kids meet at Royal Observatory (21. 03. 12)
- Ashton Kutcher to fly in space! (22. 03. 12)
- February 2012
- Help Astronomers Measure the Solar System! (02. 02. 12)
- Is the Earth getting lighter? (02. 02. 12)
- New super-Earth planet found that could support life (02. 02. 12)
- So, you want a career in space? (09. 02. 12)
- VLT Takes Most Detailed Infrared Image of the Carina Nebula (10. 02. 12)
- Vega rocket launched (13. 02. 12)
- Space Jumper (14. 02. 12)
- A Swiss satellite to clean up space (17. 02. 12)
- NASA's Picture of the Future of Human Spaceflight (20. 02. 12)
- Allan’s blog: 'Space for education; education for space' (20. 02. 12)
- Tom’s blog: Space Academy Symposium (23. 02. 12)
- January 2012
- Ticks the Box: A teacher training day for primary teachers (18. 01. 12)
- European finalists selected in Space Lab student competition (19. 01. 12)
- UK Space Agency’s resident space debris expert on Blue Peter (20. 01. 12)
- Space Day - what it is like to live, eat and work in space (23. 01. 12)
- A Moon-base by 2020? (27. 01. 12)
- Watch online: Earth from Space – special edition (30. 01. 12)
- November 2011
- Explorers of the Universe photographic exhibition (02. 11. 11)
- Free CPD for secondary teachers - using remote telescopes (02. 11. 11)
- Glamorgan student helps discover unique new comet (07. 11. 11)
- Cassini Scientist for a Day Competition (08. 11. 11)
- National Space Academy looking to recruit Lead Educators (09. 11. 11)
- ESA joins YouTube Space Lab student space competition (09. 11. 11)
- Apply now for ESA / GTTP training workshop (21. 11. 11)
- National Space Academy Vacancy - Regional Project Manager (23. 11. 11)
- Mission X: Train like an Astronaut (30. 11. 11)
- October 2011
- Teams selected for the 2012 CanSat competition (30. 10. 11)
- September 2011
- Cardiff student discovers two new asteroids (01. 09. 11)
- Space junk becoming a 'critical problem' (01. 09. 11)
- UK Space Design Competition (02. 09. 11)
- New internet tool allows the public to explore the Solar System (05. 09. 11)
- Glyncoed girls achieve great things in their GCSE Astronomy exams (06. 09. 11)
- LRO probe photographs Moon landing sites in high detail (07. 09. 11)
- Space Technology crosses over to the household (07. 09. 11)
- ESERO-UK is recruiting a Teacher Fellow (08. 09. 11)
- Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011 - beautiful slideshow of winning images (09. 09. 11)
- Your chance to view a supernova explosion (09. 09. 11)
- Chance of life on other planets increases with latest exoplanet findings from HARPS (13. 09. 11)
- August 2011
- ESERO-UK Space Education Day - Speaker Presentations now available online (03. 08. 11)
- New theory about the lunar dichotomy hints at Earth having two moons (04. 08. 11)
- Do you want to take part in a Vesta Fiesta? (04. 08. 11)
- New evidence of flowing water found on Mars (05. 08. 11)
- Mars' northern polar regions in transition (08. 08. 11)
- Mars rover nears the final destination of its mission (10. 08. 11)
- Space for All funding scheme launched for 2011/12 (15. 08. 11)
- Space Physiology and Health MSc - King's College London offers a unique space healthcare degree (16. 08. 11)
- SETI's hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence set to continue thanks to funds from benefactors (17. 08. 11)
- ESA provides first 3D video transmission live from space (18. 08. 11)
- Physics A-level entrants rise for the fifth consecutive year (19. 08. 11)
- Global collaboration enables Antarctic Ice Flow to be accurately mapped for the first ever time (23. 08. 11)
- Alpbach students reach for the stars (24. 08. 11)
- New astronomy degree course featured in Astronomy Now magazine (24. 08. 11)
- Curious about a career in space? Visit ESA at one of these careers fairs... (26. 08. 11)
- Irish stargazers on the hunt for a meteor (31. 08. 11)
- July 2011
- Teacher training in North Wales (01. 07. 11)
- Explore the dynamic high-energy Universe - a competition for secondary students (05. 07. 11)
- Slideshow of images celebrating NASA's space shuttles (07. 07. 11)
- Hubble Space Telescope : one in a million (08. 07. 11)
- Interactive graphic traces the history of human spaceflight across the world (08. 07. 11)
- Celebrating 10 years of ESA's Artemis satellite (12. 07. 11)
- Gagarin statue and exhibition unveiled in London (14. 07. 11)
- Historic final spacewalk images (14. 07. 11)
- Missed the final Shuttle launch? Watch the video here (15. 07. 11)
- Test your shuttle knowledge (19. 07. 11)
- Watch live video of the final shuttle landing (20. 07. 11)
- Video animation on Mars rovers (20. 07. 11)
- RadioAstron - the largest radio telescope - begins its orbit (25. 07. 11)
- Solar Dynamics Observatory finds 'Man in the Sun' (26. 07. 11)
- Alma radio telescope facility opens (29. 07. 11)
- June 2011
- Fly Your Thesis! 2011 campaign - four more flights launched (06. 06. 11)
- Turbulent Sun fires off a huge solar flare - spectacular video captures the event (07. 06. 11)
- Draw the Universe - get your name on a Galileo Programme Satellite (08. 06. 11)
- Help ESA to name Europe's next mission to the Space Station (08. 06. 11)
- Work with astronauts and NASA leaders for a week (08. 06. 11)
- Britain from Space (14. 06. 11)
- Watch an ESA presentation on 25 years of comet science (15. 06. 11)
- Reach for the stars - ESERO-UK Space Education Day (16. 06. 11)
- ESA releases an iPhone app (21. 06. 11)
- VIDEO: A look inside Space Shuttle Discovery (22. 06. 11)
- ESA is inviting entries for the 2012 European CanSat competition (22. 06. 11)
- Salt-rich plumes expelled by Enceladus is exciting news for Astrobiology (27. 06. 11)
- Space Ambassador Paul Roche is helping the British Council build stronger links between space scientists in the UK and Russia (28. 06. 11)
- ESA Summer of Code in Space 2011 (28. 06. 11)
- Do you want to make a call to the International Space Station? (29. 06. 11)
- May 2011
- ESA's 2011 Teachers' Summer Workshop (03. 05. 11)
- Choose the right telescope to take advantage of the upcoming Meteor shower this Friday morning (04. 05. 11)
- Live video stream of Atlas 5 launch - TODAY (06. 05. 11)
- UK leads space disaster charter (12. 05. 11)
- Pope Benedict calls the International Space Station (21. 05. 11)
- IOP/STFC School Grants Scheme offers £500 grants to schools to help teach and promote physics (23. 05. 11)
- Great video and sound recording of Endeavour's final launch (23. 05. 11)
- Satellite imagery reveals lost Egyptian pyramids (25. 05. 11)
- FREE Space and Astronomy days for NE schools (26. 05. 11)
- New 3D map shows the universe in its greatest detail yet (27. 05. 11)
- Take part in ESA's Cool Comet competition (31. 05. 11)
- Truly stunning timelapse video of the night sky (31. 05. 11)
- April 2011
- Mars Explorer Challenge (01. 04. 11)
- Webb Telescope FAQs (04. 04. 11)
- Envisat measures record loss of ozone over Arctic (05. 04. 11)
- SpaceX announces new mega-rocket - Falcon Heavy (06. 04. 11)
- 'First Orbit' video recreates Yuri Gagarin's trip (12. 04. 11)
- Roberto Vettori to become the final European to fly on Space Shuttle Endeavour (13. 04. 11)
- Great opportunity for Asteroid Observing tonight (14. 04. 11)
- Clickable guide to the International Space Station (14. 04. 11)
- Watch live video of the Ariane 5 liftoff, this Friday, 22 April, 10.37pm (18. 04. 11)
- Space Education Evaluation (18. 04. 11)
- Training Opportunity in Paris/Lisbon for UK Teachers (18. 04. 11)
- Roberto Vittori's ISS mission to discover 'dark matter' (20. 04. 11)
- Applications now open for the position of Teacher in Residence at RAL (21. 04. 11)
- China unveils rival to International Space Station (27. 04. 11)
- March 2011
- EGNOS navigation system begins serving Europe’s aircraft (03. 03. 11)
- GOCE successfully maps Earth's gravity (06. 03. 11)
- Cosmic Futures competition offers students the chance to become professional space journalists (07. 03. 11)
- Four teams selected for ESA's second 'Spin Your Thesis' campaign (14. 03. 11)
- Institute of Physics Teachers awards (16. 03. 11)
- Messenger spacecraft poised for Mercury orbit insertion (17. 03. 11)
- Don't miss tomorrow's 'Extreme Super-Moon' (18. 03. 11)
- A dazzling slideshow of images of recent events in space (23. 03. 11)
- Alpine Galileo test site to host ESA's navigation summer school (27. 03. 11)
- First image of Mercury taken by Messenger probe (29. 03. 11)
- New space technology programme to drive innovation announces formal commencement of the UK Space Agency (31. 03. 11)
- Plans announced for the creation of the world's biggest radio telescope (31. 03. 11)
- February 2011
- CryoSat ice data now open to all (01. 02. 11)
- European Commissioner: Space is a must to tackle climate change (04. 02. 11)
- Space Medicine 2011 - Workshop for students (07. 02. 11)
- The end of the world in 2012? Science communication and science scares (10. 02. 11)
- Want to find out more about how GPS works? (11. 02. 11)
- Search begins for new planet Tyche (14. 02. 11)
- Watch the live launch of the Johannes Kepler ATV (14. 02. 11)
- Student sponsorship opportunity for the International Astronautical Congress 2011 (15. 02. 11)
- New website to be set up by the Vatican and the Italian Space Agency (20. 02. 11)
- Patrick Moore Medal to recognise outstanding teachers of astronomy and geophysics (21. 02. 11)
- 2 days until final shuttle Discovery launch (22. 02. 11)
- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter delivers stunningly detailed image of the nearside of the Moon (23. 02. 11)
- Watch the docking of ATV Johannes Kepler live - TODAY (24. 02. 11)
- Interactive 3D tour lets you explore the James Webb Space Telescope (24. 02. 11)
- Sir Patrick Moore on the success of The Sky At Night (28. 02. 11)
- January 2011
- New solar system app for the iPad (04. 01. 11)
- Andromeda's once and future stars (05. 01. 11)
- Rocky exoplanet discovery is a huge leap forward in the search for Earth-like worlds (10. 01. 11)
- Planck shows off its 'bag of tricks' (11. 01. 11)
- 'Map of the universe' revealed (12. 01. 11)
- Space Academy Teacher Conference (14. 01. 11)
- 2011 set to be Europe's 'year of rockets' (15. 01. 11)
- Stargazers not put off by torrential rain across Wales (18. 01. 11)
- ESA's Mercury mapper feels the heat (18. 01. 11)
- SSTL to send mobile phone into space (24. 01. 11)
- Scholarship funding available for the International Space University (27. 01. 11)
- Applications now open for ESA's Alpbach Summer School 2011 (28. 01. 11)
- Top stargazing locations in Britain (31. 01. 11)
- Listen to Space Ambassador Anu Ojha exploring the history of animals in space (31. 01. 11)
- Stephen Tetlow offers a viewpoint on the potential growth of the space industry (31. 01. 11)
- December 2010
- Astronomers claim that the Universe may be even vaster than first realised (02. 12. 10)
- Google Science Fair (02. 12. 10)
- UK Space industry goes from strength to strength at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus (03. 12. 10)
- CryoSat-2 goes live (06. 12. 10)
- A bedroom in space (07. 12. 10)
- Private space capsule Dragon ship launched on Falcon 9 (09. 12. 10)
- How to trap a supernova in a jar (10. 12. 10)
- Behind the Webb – new video tracks the progress of the James Webb Space Telescope (15. 12. 10)
- European Space Agency offers unrivalled access to the Sun (15. 12. 10)
- ESA’s Cryosat-2 mission delivers an insight into Arctic currents (19. 12. 10)
- Opportunity for European students to attend NASA Academy 2011 (20. 12. 10)
- November 2010
- Will an asteroid collision end life on Earth? (03. 11. 10)
- Probe sweeps past ‘space peanut’ (05. 11. 10)
- New report from the Oxford Economics consultancy shows the strength of the UK space sector (08. 11. 10)
- Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a ‘mini-Big Bang’ (09. 11. 10)
- Participate in a unique 'Greenhouse in space' school challenge (10. 11. 10)
- Hayabusa probe successfully collected particles from Asteroid Itokawa (16. 11. 10)
- Take part in the 2011 Rocketry Challenge for UK schools (16. 11. 10)
- Mission X in the UK (18. 11. 10)
- Apply now for your place at Scottish Space School! (19. 11. 10)
- Europe's new astronauts graduate (24. 11. 10)
- ESA produces pan-European land cover and usage map from space (29. 11. 10)
- Hylas-1 satellite to deliver broadband access to rural Europe (30. 11. 10)
- October 2010
- UK space students graduate from International Space University (07. 10. 10)
- European students participate in IAC 2010 (08. 10. 10)
- Mars: How low can you go? (08. 10. 10)
- UK teachers and students to benefit from galaxy of cosmic resources with launch of ESERO-UK (13. 10. 10)
- Aftermath of the collision of two asteroids captured by spacecraft (14. 10. 10)
- Mission X launches on the Internet (18. 10. 10)
- Interested in finding out more about Europe’s vision for space exploration? (20. 10. 10)
- 'A new space policy for Europe' at the European Parliament (29. 10. 10)
- September 2010
- Fly your experiment to the edge of space! (03. 09. 10)
- ESA invites students to spin their theses (07. 09. 10)
- Astronomers find evidence for unusual class of black holes (09. 09. 10)
- Astronomy photographer of the year 2010 (10. 09. 10)
- Competition: Take control of Cassini (13. 09. 10)
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSETS (14. 09. 10)
- 13 teams selected for next stage of Fly Your Thesis! 2011 (15. 09. 10)
- UKDMCii leading new ESA project to strengthen UK disaster response (16. 09. 10)
- 2010 ESA/GTTP workshop for science teachers (20. 09. 10)
- Catching the strange strangelets (22. 09. 10)
- Lego helps analyse a comet (29. 09. 10)
- Compete and find your way to Jupiter! (30. 09. 10)
- August 2010
- Worldwide solar storm warns of things to come (04. 08. 10)
- Stephen Hawking: mankind must colonise space or die out (09. 08. 10)
- UK-ESERO at the National Eisteddfod (18. 08. 10)
- Fireball on Jupiter (20. 08. 10)
- Perseid meteor shower over for another year (23. 08. 10)
- Scientists develop a new way to weigh planets (23. 08. 10)
- 2010 European CanSat competition - winners announced (24. 08. 10)
- Origin of Magnetars challenges Black Hole formation theory (26. 08. 10)
- July 2010
- Herschel telescope spies galaxy with cosmic 'zoom lens' (02. 07. 10)
- Astronauts launch competition for top space adventure (04. 07. 10)
- Most massive stars ever discovered (21. 07. 10)
- June 2010
- Train like an astronaut (01. 06. 10)
- UK Space Agency to lead in the search for life on Mars (12. 06. 10)
- May 2010
- 2010 Space Academy Teachers Conference (01. 05. 10)
- An impossible star (06. 05. 10)
- ESA Human Spaceflight Teachers Workshop (10. 05. 10)
- ESA giving a spare arm to the International Space Station (12. 05. 10)
- February 2010
- ExoMars programme goes ahead (25. 02. 10)
