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Hey everyone,
Yesterday kicked off 2018's World Space Week! Space Week is an international celebration of science and technology with a focus on space exploitation.
"Since its United Nations declaration in 1999, World Space Week has grown into the largest public space event on Earth. More than 3,700 events in 80 countries celebrated the benefits of space and excitement about space exploration in 2017. The 2018 theme is “Space Unites The World”
There will be thousands of event's happening across the globe over the next few days and you can find details over on the World Space Week webside.
There also have been some fantastic Astronomy announcements recently that tie in nicely with Space Week.
Firstly, astronomers think they have discovered the first ever exomoon, which is a moon that orbits a planet outside our Solar System!
The moon is huge compared to anything we've seen before, it's the size of Neptune and orbits a planet similar in size to Jupiter but 5 times as massive. The moon was first detected by Nasa's Kepler spacecraft then further observed by the Hubble telescope. Further study is needed to confirm the initial results but if proven correct this is a massive discovery!
Next up and a lot closer to home where Japan's Hayabusa 2 rovers have sent images of the Ryugu asteroid. The rovers arrived mid September following a 3 year trip and have begun to return images and test the asteroids surface temperature. The rovers don't have wheels and instead hop around the moon by spinning a weight contained inside the probe which then generates movement. The images returned so far are amazing as shown below!
Is anyone aware of any space Week events happening in your area and of so are you planning to attend?
What do you think of the exomoon discovery or the first images from the Ryugu asteroid? Let us know!
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@Anonymous wrote:God knows why my links keep changing to that.. they work when I first post them. And thank you @jonsie that was the link
Cue the theme tune for the X-files... 
Or you could just plump for this:
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Hi 🙋 @Martin-O2
Just found these space 🚀 boots for your Mars vacation, sorry it's a bit after Space Week
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We all had moon boots back in the day 
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@jonsie wrote:We all had moon boots back in the day
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Wish they were in fashion again as they were lovely and warm.
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Hi
@jonsie ~ need to call them "Mars Boots" now though ~ great!
@Cleoriff~ can see these boots don't know which way to turn ~ great!
@Martin-O2~ some lovely ideas for your planned trip for you to keep warm feet, at least
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They are/were lovely and warm though @TallTrees
Looked silly, though rather be silly and warm than trendy and cold 
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@jonsie wrote:Wish they were in fashion again as they were lovely and warm.
If we keep getting winters like last year they will come back as they'll be needed 
