If you are visiting from Wellington & the Hutt Valley, check for closures of the Remutaka Hill
Cosmic conversations – Signs in the sky
For tens of thousands of years, our ancestors have used the stars to foretell future events. When people come out to view the stars at Stonehenge Aotearoa, we identify important constellations in the sky. A constellation is a group of stars forming a pattern in the...
Comet 3I/ATLAS
Tune in as NASA shares the latest images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, collected by several NASA missions. First observed earlier this year, the 3I/ATLAS comet is only the third object ever identified as entering our solar system from elsewhere in the galaxy....Stars Align in Wairarapa
The Wairarapa is noted in this article from “The New Daily” website in Australia, which mentions the “Star Trek” tour at Stonehenge Aotearoa:https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/travel/experiences/2025/11/16/star-gazing-nz-lonely-planet
The Morning Star
If you are up before dawn and the sky is clear, you will see a brilliant star in the east. This is the ‘Morning Star’. Actually, it is not a star (a star is a Sun), it is the planet Venus. Venus is the brightest star-like object in the sky. At maximum brightness, if...