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Asteroids: Sometimes good, sometimes bad – always amazing
Asteroids often get a bad press. Not surprising really as scientists think that a 10 km wide space rock that hit Earth 66 million years ago was...
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...
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...
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...
World Space Week at the OU
We are running a number of online panel events in World Space Week open to everyone. You can find out more on the links below, where you can sign-up...