Author Archives: Matthew Allen

The Faulkes Telescope Project will be contributing to a week-long summer school run by PLATON (http://platon-project.eu) called “The Mars Mission” for teachers held at Marathon Beach near Athens in Greece in July. The summer school is funded by the Erasmus …

Last week, the inaugural meeting of the EU-funded PLATON (Promoting innovative Learning Approaches for the Teaching Of Natural sciences) project took place at Parque Biológico de Gaia, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. PLATON aims to offer an open and innovative …

Students at the New York University Abu Dhabi, along with their supervisor, David Russell, have used data gathered from Faulkes Telescope Project observations to observe the strange behaviour of a binary star system containing a black hole. The system, known …

Last week, the FT team were in Leiden, the Netherlands taking part in a week-long, European teacher training workshop run by Space Awareness, the Galileo Teacher Training Program and the European Space Agency. The event welcomed science teachers from around Europe to discover different ways …

Today is the day that ESA’s ExoMars mission lands a module on the surface of Mars. This exciting mission aims to investigate the question of whether life has ever existed on Mars and will do this in 2 ways: Firstly, …

On Thursday 6th October, FT Director Paul Roche spent a busy day at Bradfield College Near Reading. The day started with a talk on “Living in Space” to around 100 children from local state primary schools. Paul talked to the children …

Fraser and Sophie have been at Armagh Planetarium in Northern Ireland as part of World Space Week. Armagh Planetarium is Ireland’s leading centre for astronomy education and is dedicated to delivering astronomy education to people of all age groups. On Monday, Sophie …

Today marks the end of the successful ESA mission to track a comet and place a lander on its surface as the Rosetta probe finishes its collision course with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Launched on 2nd March 2004, the Rosetta mission took …

On September 14th, Gaia published its first data release that detailed all the findings from its first year of scanning the sky. The date marked 1,000 days since the satellite launched and since then it has been continously scanning the sky, building …

Yesterday, NASA announced that the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has imaged what appear to be plumes of water vapour erupting from the surface of one of Jupiter’s moons, Europa. Beneath its thick icy surface, Europa is known to harbour an extensive ocean of liquid …