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...
August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
... Brahe, Galileo and Newton, and another filled with Islamic astronomy artefacts, and so on. In the more contemporary section, you... matter they have dedicated their life to understanding. Astronomy and space science are certainly not exempt from this...
August 2020
Opportunities for young people in the space sector
... summer schools held around the world in fields such as astronomy, robotics, biomedical engineering and rocketry, offer a hands-on ...days under the supervision of experts, and the Space Astronomy Summer programme in Maryland, USA, where students can ...
