Tag: outreach

Artist Helen Schell uses creativity and craft to give another view of science – and it is a powerful tool for outreach.

What do you do if your scientific questions demand extreme environments, or take place over hundreds or even thousands of years? You might think that means that experiments are not possible, but Charles Cockell and his colleagues would like to prove you wrong.

The December issue of A&G is ready to read online right now.

‘Sounds of space’ combines plasma wave science with music, dance, film and gaming to develop innovative outreach. We report on our latest performance which included experimental and interactive dance followed by a quiet and reflective audio/visual experience.

Exoplanets may be scientific heaven for researchers, but NASA is highlighting their hellish side for Halloween this year with some new posters

An earthquake has damaged Khari Shareef in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, site of a college proposed by RAS Fellow Shamim A Sheikh.

The RAS has invested in a new Brownie badge about space – find out what one Brownie thinks about it.

Whistlers and chorus are plasma waves in the upper atmosphere; Nigel P Meredith describes how converting them to sounds opens the doors to a wide range of outreach activities with artists and gamers.

Supporting schoolchildren to carry our real research has many benefits – for teachers and scientists as well as the students themselves. Peter Hatfield of the University of Oxford writes about LUCID

Big stargazing events generate of lot of razzmatazz, but how much impact do they make? Karen Masters and colleagues had a look at the legacy of Stargazing Live events at Portsmouth.

Big history is the study of human civilisation in the context of the cosmos – and Ian Crawford argues that astrobiology is a logical partner in this endeavour.

If you want to do radio astronomy, then build yourself a radio telescope. That's what a group of students at the University of Exeter thought, and now they are ready to peer into the galactic centre.

The October issue of A&G covers one of the RAS200 Bicentenary outreach projects will be taking place in South Africa, using a major exhibition as the focus for astronomy education and outreach.

Fun Palaces are creative, cultural, but above all community events taking place worldwide on the weekend of 6 and 7 October. This year the RAS is joining in, along with Creativity and Curiosity.

Hannah Dalgleish won an RAS Grant to attend the 8th Communicating Astronomy to the Public (CAP) conference at the The Fukuoka City Science Museum in Japan – and was exceptionally lucky that the cherry blossom (sakura) came a week early!

Jenny Lister, winner of the RAS Patrick Moore Medal for 2018, talks about Tim Peake, telescope and learning alongside the children she teaches.

If you have a smartphone in your pocket, you could be a citizen scientist. Aftab Khan and colleagues discuss how seismology can benefit from new technology.

Enthusiasm is one of the most effective tools for a teacher – and football has a lot of enthusiastic fans among schoolchildren. A new RAS200 project brings geophysics to the fans, as described by RAS Outreach Officer Lucinda Offer.

NASA's Juno spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter offers an opportunity for amateur observers to collaborate with mission scientists – to mutual benefit.

Ten years after it opened, Kielder Observatory has taken a big step forward with a new observatory building, the Gillian Dickinson Astroimaging Academy, and an enhanced range of events and courses.