Scotland Post-16

In 2017, the Liverpool Telescope was involved in the investigation of an exciting new discovery: the star system TRAPPIST-1.

Have you ever wondered why stars look different colours? What do these colours mean? How do we know what stars are made of? Explore these questions with our classify a star activity.

Did you know the Earth is travelling around the Sun at nearly 107,000 kilometres per hour?

An Orrery is a moving, mechanical model of the Solar System. It shows how all of the planets orbit around the Sun.

A satellite is an object which orbits another. An orbit is the curved path that an object in space takes around another object.