12 July 2022
Star billing for first Webb picture
... time to almost the very edge. A tantalising taster image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webb's First Deep Field, was...date.” Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. “We are now even...
March 2016
Multi-planet Civilizations in Popular Culture
... derived from mythological archetypes-arguably helping us to process our past, as opposed to a possible future-and famously set in ‘a galaxy far, far away’, with no planet Earth even mentioned. Both of these classics, however, directly and indirectly...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... elements in a barren yet beautiful landscape. In my young mind, the Universe was home to all sorts of planets, stars, galaxies and black holes. It had produced life on our own blue planet but could also harbour life...
February 2021
On the nature of spacepower
As Douglas Adams notes in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, “Space is big. Really big.” Although humanity’s space aspirations may be great, most of our space activities in the ...
