Outreach

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

NASA's hugely successful Kepler missing is getting close to the end of its life – but it's going to turn and look at Earth on 10 December and you could wave goodbye.

GCSE Astronomy at the Royal Astronomical Society - results are in!

If you find it's always cloudy when the aurora is strong, why not have a go at classifying aurora images instead?

Winter School on Astronomy brings nations together to pursue astronomy