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Soton Astrodome The planetarium shows consists of both guided tours of the constellations and current astronomy events which can be seen in the nightsky above England.

Join Dr Sadie Jones and her team on Mobile Planetarium school visits and cross-disciplinary projects like Aurora Art and Black Hole Poetry from the University of Southampton We also offer an award-winning show called 'We are Astronomers' which features the voice of David Tennant (Dr Who). The astrodome school visits are run by Astronomer Dr Sadie Jones and a team of Postgraduate and Undergraduate Astronomy students based at University of Southampton.

1) Polar bear 🐻‍❄️ drawings below the correct colour order for Aurora by grace & 2) my book on the shelf at the school ...
13/10/2026

1) Polar bear 🐻‍❄️ drawings below the correct colour order for Aurora by grace &

2) my book on the shelf at the school 💚📗

3,4 & 5) Table names on brand with our Aurora Art workshop 🐻‍❄️♻️🧊

6) Bob the polar bear catching some rays 🐻‍❄️🤩😎

Rocking the green lanyards as DBS checked / appropriate adults at Freemantle Primary school today. Doing 2 Aurora Art wo...
13/10/2026

Rocking the green lanyards as DBS checked / appropriate adults at Freemantle Primary school today. Doing 2 Aurora Art workshops for the year 5 💚💜❤️🐻‍❄️ grace Sadie

Today we are at Ludlow Junior School doing 5 shows for the year 5s Julia Erceg .w69420 Sadie
09/10/2026

Today we are at Ludlow Junior School doing 5 shows for the year 5s Julia Erceg .w69420 Sadie

Feel so honoured that the Brownies in Hamble awarded me my Space badge this evening. I never get tired of answering ques...
01/10/2026

Feel so honoured that the Brownies in Hamble awarded me my Space badge this evening. I never get tired of answering questions about astronomy, and they had so many great questions! I feel very lucky that this is my job and it’s still bring me so much joy after all these years - Iong may it continue 🤞🤩🌟💪

Thanks for my sunflowers 🌻 too - truly a delightful evening chatting Space with the young folks 🔭🪐🛰️

Had some fun on the roof today in the telescope domes filming for social media with my lovely line manager Pearl John - ...
29/09/2026

Had some fun on the roof today in the telescope domes filming for social media with my lovely line manager Pearl John - we’ll post the vids as soon as we figure out how to make them all snazzy with captions etc.

Felt very honoured to have a lunch visitor yesterday at Uni .realms was a guest on my last Astronomy Voyage with Hurtigr...
10/07/2026

Felt very honoured to have a lunch visitor yesterday at Uni .realms was a guest on my last Astronomy Voyage with Hurtigruten and they also gifted me a brain which I’ve called Bertie. Bertie is now living it up with their new pal Black Hole on my shelf of feminist literature 🥰🕳️🧠

Another warm day talking blackholes with grace , Mina, the year 6s and some dinosaurs at the window 🦕
08/07/2026

Another warm day talking blackholes with grace , Mina, the year 6s and some dinosaurs at the window 🦕

Today Mina, grace and I did 2 Aurora Art workshops for year 5s at Freemantle Academy and tomorrow we are back doing Blac...
07/07/2026

Today Mina, grace and I did 2 Aurora Art workshops for year 5s at Freemantle Academy and tomorrow we are back doing Black Hole Poetry with year 6 🤩

Doing Aurora Art today for 60 x year 5s at Townhill Juniors with .x .w69420
03/06/2026

Doing Aurora Art today for 60 x year 5s at Townhill Juniors with .x .w69420

The book has gone international. Woo hoo 📚🎉Received this lovely letter from a reader in the Philippines 🇵🇭 from KC aged ...
15/05/2026

The book has gone international. Woo hoo 📚🎉Received this lovely letter from a reader in the Philippines 🇵🇭 from KC aged 10 🙏 This just in time to announce that we have received funding from the South East Physics Network (SEPnet) for another print run! Yay 🙌

So for a limited time you can get a copy of my book ‘Seren and the Polar Bear cub’ for you, or a child you know for FREE! With Free P&P too!

More info on how to get your free book at the link below - Go go go! 🤩😍

https://astrodome.soton.ac.uk/seren-and-the-polar-bear-cub-order-books/

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Physics And Astronomy, Building 46, University Of Southampton
Southampton
SO171BJ

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+442380592159

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