We’ve been running hosted live streams of solar and lunar eclipses since 2017. Highlights include a partially eclipsed Sun setting behind the Andes, and darkness enveloping a football stadium in Western Kentucky.
- Katsuhiko Sato: from inflation to science policy
- Douglas Trumbull: a mutual appreciation between scientists and moviemakers
- Wish you were here? Seven chances to experience a total solar eclipse in the 2020s
- The top five films about science or scientists
- Japanese spacecraft set to attempt asteroid sample grab
- Citizen scientists spot meteorite strike during lunar eclipse
- The complicated relationship between science and sci-fi
- The 400-Year Rhythm of Great Conjunctions (with Steffen Thorsen)
- Galileo: Work-from-home Wizard, and Other Tales from Lockdown
- Top Ten Ephemeral Sky Sights
- What Can Lunar Eclipses Do For Science?
- What is the Saros Cycle and How Does It Foretell Eclipses?
- “Lights All Askew”: How a Solar Eclipse Made Einstein Famous
- A Teachable Moment: When the Moon’s Shadow Came to Angola
Projects
- Solar eclipses: A pump of curiosity for early humans? — paper for Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 367, 2021
- The pump of curiosity at IAUS 367 — poster presentation
- Extending the Rare Earth hypothesis — IAUS 367 abstract
- Spain: eclipse waiting 2026/27 — in English
- España: eclipse esperando: 2026/27 — en español
- USA: science + stories (August 2017 total eclipse)
- Angola: February 2017 annular eclipse
- Indonesia: March 2016 total eclipse
- Madagascar, September 2016 annular eclipse
- The use of science-fiction films as media framing devices — MSc dissertation abstract
- SkypeRead: movies + teambuilding in STEM
- A new method for predicting large solar flares
- Bringing community astronomy to rural Africa
- Astronomy beyond sight
- Listening to the patterns of the universe
- Mystery of the moon’s tilted orbit
- Where exactly is the moon? Eclipse stories from Indonesia
- Solar eclipse to unite science students
- Charles Darwin: Time Traveller (one of three chapters I wrote for the university textbook “R.E.A.D.I.N.G.”)
- Eclipse Stories: The World Joins Together in Palu
- “The best seat in the solar system”: 10 things you need to know for the March 9th eclipse
- Beauty and Ingenuity: Countdown to March 9 Eclipse
- ‘Completely Off the Charts’: Indonesia Prepares for March 9 Eclipse
- Africa gets ready for another sun and moon show
- Ring of fire: Africa awaits September 1st annular eclipse
- Helping STEM students thrive in a multipolar world (article for “Education in Science” about SkypeRead)
- A brief history of cross-border scientific teamwork (highlights of my presentation at the 2015 ASE conference)
