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Mercury is a giant pencil and ExoMars launches!
Mercury is basically a giant pencil
In the stationery cupboard that is our solar system, Mercury is the pencil. Data acquired from the MESSENGER probe, which finished its mission by crashing into Mercury in 2015, has been analysed and…
Gravitational Waves | Einstein’s ripple in space-time proven true at LIGO
“Ladies and Gentlemen, we have detected gravitational waves” David Reitze, executive director of LIGO announced to the world at a press conference this afternoon.
It is a momentous occasion as all of the predictions of Einstein’s general…
Astronaut Tim Peake launches 6 months in Space
For those of us with an interest in all things Space, we had been waiting for December for quite some time. You might assume that I’m referring to the Star Wars premiere (which was great and a big moment for me too), but I’m actually…
European Space Agency TEDx
Last Wednesday, November 11th I flew to the European Space Agency's Research & Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, to attend their TEDxESA event, which was themed on Science Beyond Fiction, an investigation into the…
Water On Mars: So What Now?
The announcement this week of finding running water on the Martian surface was big news, your Facebook and Twitter feeds were filled with the revelation and people rushed to find the closet Airbnb next to the picturesque rivers of the Red…
Shot of Science: Lunar Eclipse, New Early Humans, Binge Eating & Blue Bastards.
Total Lunar Eclipse
On September 28th you better make sure you set your alarms earlier than usual. One of the most spectacular natural sights, a total lunar eclipse, will be visible to all of you in Ireland in the early hours of Monday the…
From Space University to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Hi all!
This is my final update for Headstuff on all things Space for now. And also the end of the summer for us all. In my last post, I was in the middle of my final week on the Space Studies programme in Athens Ohio. And I have to…
The Year 2040! Space University week 7-8
Hi all,
And greetings for the last time from sunny Athens, Ohio. This is my last blogpost from here as we have arrived at our final week on the Space Studies Programme. This time next week I shall be in Edinburgh at Summerhall Theatre…
Space University week 6: Dream Big!
Hi all,
The SSP experience continues here at Ohio, as indeed do the storms, and flood warnings and thunder & lightning. In the last few weeks, since we finished up lectures, we’ve been focussing on the tasks required as part of our…
Shot of Science: Pluto’s Love Message
In my day Pluto was a planet. One of the nine planets in our solar system I learnt off by heart: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. If any planet deserved to be kicked off the special planet list it was…