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Space Week | From Science-Fact to Science-Fiction, Space Films Show Us Mankind’s Obsession…
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Dir. Stanley Kubrick
In many ways, what is there left to be said about 2001? With the exception of Citizen Kane and a handful of others, there are very few films which have had as much ink spilled over…
Short Story Competition | Space Week
One million of us dear humans are going to Mars. How? Elon Musk’s very large rocket. No seriously, Musk is building a rocket bigger than a football field to fly to Mars. This isn’t the first outrageous task Musk has set his enormous brain…
Space Week Interview | Moondust, In Search Of The Men Who Fell To Earth
For another Space Week special Carl Hutchinson interviewed Andrew Smith, author of Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell To Earth and recent speaker at the Bluedot Festival.
HeadStuff: What was the moment or the event that reignited your…
Space Week | 4 Space Poems to Rock Your World
"Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Headstuff. Its mission: to explore strange new literary forms, to seek out new poems and new writing, to boldly go where no-one has gone before."
La-laah, la-la-la,…
Space Week | Moon That Meets The Eye?
Our solar system is home to at least 181 moons – that's probably 180 more than you thought, right? And unlike our own dull rock, some of these moons are breathtakingly beautiful, geologically active, and may potentially harbour life. There…
Space Week is Here! | Socialising Science
It's National Space week Oct 3rd-8th! What better way to celebrate it than to give you a post dedicated to all things space happening around the country this week from the new Space Ambassador for Northern Ireland Niamh Shaw -…
Crystals Reveal Earth’s Violent Ancient Past
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have confirmed that the oldest dated minerals on Earth were formed by asteroid impacts. This is pretty exciting because it makes our geological history a little more coherent (which is more than we…
Tycho Brahe, Brazen Astronomer
Tycho Brahe was born as Tyge Brahe in 1546, though he would adopt the Latinized form of his first name when he was fifteen. His parents were Danish nobles, with his father, Otte Brahe, one of the close advisors of the King of Denmark. Tycho…
SETI switches focus in hunt for extra-terrestrial life
In the light of recent research, SETI – the Institute for the Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence – has decided to start focusing on red dwarf systems to seek out intelligent life. Previously, researchers have prioritised solar…
Space | The Final Frontier for Historians
What’s a completely modern, contemporary, theme in history?
Try to think of a suitable answer: Politics? No. The Greeks. Technology? Well, some say that papyrus was a technology. Gender? Joan of Arc and Elizabeth 1 set those contemporary…