Ed Buckley with Scorpius mural, ASTRA rooms, Hamilton. 1971, photo by David Adams
Ed Buckley (1940-2021)
The Fermi Paradox, Part 3
Interstellar space probe launches, ‘Man & the Stars’ Plate 11, Duncan Lunan continues his exploration of the scenarios for other space faring cultures
The Fermi Paradox, Part 2
“In 1974 Prof. Gerard O’Neill published his proposals for large free-flying settlements in space, following earlier suggestions by Tsiolkovsky, Bernal and others.”
The Sky Above You – May 2022
What can be seen in the night sky in May
‘I Think, Therefore I Am’ – René Descartes
““I was looking for something else in my photo folders when I came across this”
Have You Been Stargazing for Dark Sky Week?
“And high overhead and all moving about,/There were thousands of millions of stars.”
The Fermi Paradox Part 1
Alan Bean ‘Where is everybody’, read more as Duncan Lunan continues his astronomy series with ‘The Fermi Paradox’
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Breakthrough Listen Robot, Green Bank to find out more read Duncan Lunan’s latest article
Largest Comet Nucleus Ever Seen
This diagram compares the size of the icy, solid nucleus of comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) to several other comets.
Why is the moon two faced?
A new study published in the journal Science Advances shows that the impact that formed the Moon’s giant South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin would have created a massive plume of heat that propagated through the lunar interior.
