31 August 2017
Degree paths that can help you to obtain a career in space exploration
... take a look at some of them in this article. Astronomy Astronomy is the study of the planets, stars, and all the ..., or the galaxies. You’ll want to obtain a Ph.D. in astronomy to get started in this career. Engineering Everyone expects NASA to employ...
15 June 2020
Cosmos The Art and Science of the Universe
... blurred – at least in the fields of space and astronomy. According to its publicity, this book “charts the human...a bibliography and an index. Art curator, Olson, and astronomy professor Pasachoff, were brought together by the return of Halley’s...
19 September 2023
The Astronomer’s Chair
...what the images said about the cultural place of astronomy and science; and anything else on gender and ... ignore some of the more tortuous prose, students of observational astronomy will find this text both enlightening and endearing in its analysis...
December 2014
Before Rosetta: Svetlana Gerasimenko’s story
... asteroid discoverer, Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, who worked in the Crimean astrophysics laboratory. When I first took an interest in astronomy, I never expected my life to turn out this way. Even in the days when ‘our’ comet was discovered...
August 2017
On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade
... on revenue return. Above right: Figure 2. Exoplanet yield as a function of telescope diameter (adapted from AURA, 2015). In astronomy, on-orbit assembly can enable the construction of telescopes too large to be fully built on Earth and launched into...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
... brings about their end. Detailed modelling of binary stars is a major challenge which will require the best of astronomy, astrophysics, applied mathematics and computer science on many levels. Coupled with state of the art observational surveys...
