Society for Popular Astronomy

In 2019 an air leak was discovered in the International Space Station ( ISS ). Attempts to fix the leak have not been fully successful. Last year, technicians identified why cabin pressure had been affected. Other cracks where discovered in 2020 using an electron microscope and sealed, but there are...

The news agency Tass said that Russia is planning to design and build rockets capable of carrying payloads of two-hundred tonnes. While China is to built its fifth rocket launch site, including a section of a command centre and assembly testing facility. The new launch site will be in Xiangshan, clo...

The global population level is slowing and set to stabilise at 8 billion. It’s HOW we live at this point in time that’s fouling the nest. We need total system change, not half-baked reformist solutions. But that’s politics .. .

I thought it was the Eagle neb because at the centre of the nebulosity there appear to be structures that look like the so-called Pillars of Creation.

There’s plenty of extended detail in there. Are we looking at the Eagle Nebula?

The Moon and Mars were messed up long before showman Musk burst onto the scene Mike, by asteroids and comets.

I haven’t seen this star for many years. It’s very pretty.

The countryside charity CPRE has completed its survey with over 8000 results. The star count has revealed a ten percentage drop in people experiencing severe light pollution since February. The CPRE attributes this reduction probably to the Covid lockdown. The number of stars counted in Orion betwee...

Apparently, these interstellar visitors to the Solar System are more frequent than was previously thought.

Gosky sounds Russian like Gorky. It’s a company in America.

A century from now they’ll easily be able to deal with rogue comets and asteroids. In fact, with proper planning they could do it now.

I’ll see you Eva in a million years from now.

What a revelation it would be Eva, if one of those thousand or so exoplanets so far discovered was found to have an atmosphere indicating possible life on the planet.

All the more reason for Musk et al to go to Mars and stay there.

In the 1970s, I did a geology course at a further education college. On one occasion, a lecturer from Manchester University gave a talk and brought with him a small glass vial containing Apollo lunar material. It looked like sand. With care the vial was passed round the class. The lecturer said that...