It’s not every day you get asked to spend £250 million, but that’s what we’ll be trying to do in a debate at Science Oxford next Wednesday. I’ll be trying to persuade the audience to back my idea of how to spend an extra quarter of a billion pounds per year on UK space exploration. [...]
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This week’s Living Space is now online, featuring news from Jupiter with BAAJupiter section director John Rogers, and a fantastic interview with Stuart Clark. Aside from Patrick, Stuart has had the greatest influence on both my careers and it was fantastic to be able to get him on the show.
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Today’s Living Space podcast is now available, featuring an extended interview with astronaut Piers Sellers. It’s worth listening if only to find out the real answer to the old question about what can be seen with the naked eye from space. The answer made me – and everyone I’ve talked to about it – go [...]
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Tomorrow’s Living Space is the first of our extended interviews, featuring twenty minutes of chat with astronaut Piers Sellers. With the crew of Atlantis struggling with a whole host of problems, what better time to hear about the problems of working in space? Harriet will also have the latest on the current shuttle mission, and [...]
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At about five am this morning, two thirds of the way through my second shift on the telescope, I went outside to watch the dawn. The peak immediately behind the JCMT is called Pu’u Poliahu and I decided that would be the perfect spot to watch the Sun come up. Poliahu is the Hawai’ian snow [...]
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More from Mauna Kea shortly, but to distract you in the meantime here’s this week’s Carnival of Space. Given the weather up here at the minute, I might need the distraction.
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It’s 7.20am. I started my shift when we left the astronomer’s residence at 8pm. It’ll be at least another three, probably more like four hours until I’m back in bed. And then we’ll do it all again tomorrow.
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Morning. Or evening. I’m not sure, you see. Living in three different time zones does that to you. There’s UK time, which my body is still just clinging to. Local Hawaiian time, too, and nocturnal time which means that it’s 7pm at night and time to get up.
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Hello from halfway up Mauna Kea, on the Big Island of Hawai’i. The blog this week will accompany me on my observing run at the JCMT, but in the meantime here’s the photo set from last time I was here (filming for Sky at Night). If you want to have a look around, the program [...]
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…is here. The next question is ‘what are we going to do about it?’ because it appears that ‘nothing’ is no longer a viable option.
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