Our chummy science counterparts – the ArtScience Museum, gifted us a terrific opportunity to interview Dr Harry Cliff, one of the curators of the Collider exhibition – which makes its Asian debut on 14 Nov 2015! Dr Cliff also happens to work in CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) in Geneva where the Large…
Read MoreAmazing Journey: New Horizons
By Yong Jian-Yi, a Master Science Educator at Science Centre Singapore who also hosts Live Planetarium Shows at the Omni-Theatre. On the 14th July 2015, the Space probe New Horizons travelled to 12,500km away from Pluto. This marks humanity closest encounter with the once planet. The mission was initiated in 2007 and it took almost…
Read MoreMore Singaporeans catching Eclipses and other Celestial events
“Eclipses (Solar and Lunar) are relatively rare events occuring about 4 to 7 times per year throughout the world, albeit visible only in some parts of the world. … There has been an increasing participation in Singaporeans catching eclipses and other celestial events throughout the years. This could be attributed to better awareness and more…
Read MoreThird of a Lunar Tetrad – Find out what this means!
Some things always cause excitement. One of them is an eclipse. In Dec 2011, I felt the awesomeness of being in the exact paths of the Moon and Sun, and facing the right side of Earth to be able to observe the total lunar eclipse. It was especially so because that was the last total…
Read MoreDon’t miss the Comet Lovejoy!
I subscribe to quite a number of Facebook Pages which have been sharing actively on the Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) recently, so much so that my first reaction was to ignore the posts that were flooding my Facebook Newsfeed (if you are familiar with how Facebook works). In my mind, I was thinking “Oh, show…
Read MoreOnce in a red moon (again)
Three years ago, shortly after I joined Science Centre, I learnt about the last total lunar eclipse of 2011 on 10 Dec 2014 and managed to enjoy the eclipse process with my husband and friends at the Jurong Lake Park. We had coined it as a “Once in a red moon” affair back then as…
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