Outreach

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

‘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.

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.

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.

There's a new planetarium show out there and it really is quite ... out there! RAS reviewer Stephen Serjeant is impressed.

When we meet aliens – and a lot of researchers think it is when and not if – how will we treat them? And how might they treat us?

Don Kurtz will be speaking at an outreach event in the grounds of Houghton Tower in November this year, together with opportunities for stargazing whatever the weather.

NASA's Juno mission has released some wonderful videos showing the approach to the giant planet using timelapse images, and the spectacular atmospheric circulation captured by JunoCam