This month’s Prospect has an article about the status of Pluto. Why do I bring up this old, old news? Because there’s a competition attached. They promise a ’space themed prize’ for the best suggestion for a new memonic for the planets in the solar system. The old ones, the most popular of which was [...]
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One more post for today – an observing challenge for you all.
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Asteroid 57424 (think of the number as a date) has now been named Caelumnoctu in honour of the Sky at Night (we weren’t allowed skyatnight as it isn’t a real word). It’s a main belt asteroid, orbiting the Sun once every 5 years [...] -
Just noticed the interview I did for the Guardian about Sunshine has appeared on the website. Mind you, you heard it here first.
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We had a fantastic 50th birthday party for the Sky at Night a couple of days ago, on the actual anniversary of the first transmission. More than 250 guests turned up (Patrick was hosting an overflow party for 200 or so more yesterday!) and we filmed what felt like hundreds of interviews which you’ll get [...]
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Currently sitting in a lecture by Mike Lockwood on the effect of the Sun on space travel. He’s just shown this amazing image, which shows the bow shock around a young star called LL Orionis. If you look above and just to the left of centre, you’ll see an arc. This is the shock where [...]
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It was great to feature the results from the IPHAS survey in the Sky at Night newsnotes a few months ago, especially the amazing image of the Rosette nebula below. The survey is also featured in the Guardian today, although there’s a classic subeditor’s error. The headline is ‘Rosette Nebula captured on film” – I [...]
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Tonight’s question time from the National Astronomy Meeting will be broadcast live online. To join me, along with Jocelyn Bell, Lucie Green and Don Kurtz go here. We’re live from 7.30pm BST.
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It’s nice to see that we’ve been recognised in Parliament, even if there are a couple of small errors. (The 650th programme was in January, and the anniversary programmes will be broadcast usual on the 1st Sunday of the month).
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How do you get closer to outer space without leaving the surface of the Earth? Climb a hill, or better, a mountain. You might think that the closest you could get to the Moon would be climbing to the summit of Mount Everest, but I’d like to introduce you to Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador, closer [...]
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As part of next week’s National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, I’ll be appearing on a very distinguished panel* for Astronomy Question Time. Feel free to come along (free tickets needed in advance) or watch online.
* – Distinguished in this case means ‘has appeared on Sky at Night, or works for the BBC’.[...]
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