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Asteroid Day 2020: a celebration of our asteroid research
Asteroid Day To mark Asteroid Day, we have spent some time pulling together the various threads of asteroid research that take place within The...
Civilisations beyond our galaxy
How many civilisations might there be in our Galaxy, and how could we find out? To celebrate the 90th birthday (28th May 2020) of Frank Drake,...
5 Big Questions About the Universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DAvWnWKDeI Last year, the BBC broadcast “The Universe” TV series, which several SPS Astronomy staff were...
22nd February: Andy Lane’s Farewell lecture
Professor Andy Lane retires from The Open University at the end of February 2022 after nearly 40 years of service. To mark his retirement, Andy...
Application of Space Resources Research for Mining Waste Remediation
OU researchers Dr Richard Windmill and Prof Mahesh Anand have obtained SPRINT funding for a project investigating...
Lighting it Up: The Physics of Imaging Space
https://youtu.be/Kr036HaTkrE The School of Physical Sciences (SPS) Outreach and Public Engagement (OPE) team have spent the last year working...
Postgraduate Space Science course registrations open
Places are still available on our MSc in Space Science and Technology and our Postgraduate Certificate in Space Science for 2021 start. Our...
Moon Night is back 7-9th December 2020
Monday 7 December marks the 48th anniversary of the Apollo 17 launch. The Open University STEM Faculty is hosting a series of events as part of...
Alba Morales’ Paper Presented at K-CAP 2021
KMi PhD student Alba Morales attended the 11th KCap Online Conference which took place on 2nd to 3rd...
12th Oct: sixth of 50th birthday celebrations of systems teaching at the OU
Gene Bellinger will present a webinar on Systems thinking: trial and learning scheduled for 12th October at 12 noon (UK time). Gene’s...
9th November: seventh of 50th birthday celebrations of systems teaching at the OU
Julian Corner will present a webinar on Systems thinking and social justice scheduled for 9th November at 12 noon (UK time). Julian looks...
7th December: eighth of 50th birthday celebrations of systems teaching at the OU
Professor Ray Ison will present the last in our series of webinar events celebrating 50 years of systems thinking teaching at OU, scheduled...