As we already demonstrated several times, we take the educational aspect of the Google Lunar X PRIZE very seriously. For example, as part of our educational and public outreach activities, we are running an online article series with Hungarian topics related to space in general, and to the Moon specially.

Hungary has a surprisingly rich space history, mostly unknown to the general public. As the seventh nation to send a man to space, Bertalan Farkas, Hungary's first cosmonaut orbited Earth in 1980 decades before many of today's prominent powers. But apart from being involved in the Soviet space program and doing various experiments on several space stations, Hungarians also worked in the Apollo program back in the '60s, and are taking part in missions of the European Space Agency both in engineering and in scientific research today.

The article series by Puli Space aims to provide an overview of these topics and many more, so stay with us and get a glimpse of how such a small country set foot outside our home planet, in Space, the Moon, and the Hungarians.

Enjoy the newest contribution written by our Team Member László Molnár, which tells the story of An unexpected visitor at Andromeda.

The asteroid appears as two almost straight streaks under the great Andromeda galaxy.  Both plates have been projected to a single piece of photographic paper and a small offset creates the "double vision" effect. Supernovae would be easy to identify as single stars without pairs. - Courtesy of Miklós Lovas, © Konkoly Observatory