Our Galaxy’s Magnetic Field: image of the week
This Planck image shows the complicated link between the magnetic field of our galaxy and its interstellar dust.
Space exploration
50 Years of spacewalks: image of the week
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This week (3 June 2015) is the 50th anniversary of the first NASA spacewalk. Edward H. White II floated for more than 20 minutes in the microgravity of space on the Gemini IV mission in 1965. At the end of …
Happy Birthday Hubble!
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched 24th April 1990 and has beamed thousands of images back to Earth, unveiling many mysteries of astronomy.
The cultural significance of space exploration
Because I am an awful nerd, last week I compiled a playlist of space-themed jazz to listen to on my drive to work at the UK Space Agency – Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Herbie Hancock.
Rosetta’s Philae landing in a town near you!
If you have been following space activity over the last year you can’t have missed the story of Rosetta, the ambitious mission to chase, orbit and land a probe on the surface of a comet. To achieve this Rosetta has been …
How do you like them apples?
Last month we received a very fitting gift on behalf of Tim Peake.
Research in space and the ageing population
Some of the most common questions we hear at the Agency are, "What benefit does space exploration actually have? What’s the point of sending people into space when we’ve so many problems here on Earth to sort out?"