18 April 2018
Ambitious Galactic survey to help find Sun's lost family
...is has not been left to an unlucky individual to sift through the data star by star. Instead the team have a helping hand in the form of The Cannon – a computer code that recognise patterns in the spectra of a subset of stars and then it uses machine...
April 2025
Catapult to orbit - will David finally defeat Goliath?
... edition of Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon showing the firing of the Columbiad cannon, with the “projectile” visible top centre of the image. Verne’s calculations for the requirements for the cannon are remarkably accurate considering this...
