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Tag: Star

Seeing Science in the Stars: Constance Naden’s sonnets and the night sky

20th May 202020th May 2020  Clare Stainthorp

When nineteenth-century scientist, philosopher and poet, Constance Naden, contemplated the night sky, she saw a universe full of vitality. Here, Clare Stainthorp, reflects on Naden’s sonnets and the starry cosmos that inspired them.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Poetry, STEMTagged: Clare Stainthorp, Constance Naden, History of Atheism, New Woman, Night, Night / Shift, Night Sky, Nineteenth-Century Britain, Nineteenth-century poetry, Poetry, Sonnets, Star, Starry Night, Victorian Literature

The end to moonshine revels? How our obsession with light is destroying life on the planet.

19th March 202019th March 2020  Florence Hazrat

How many star constellations do you know? And if you know any, can you see them in the city where most of us live? Environment editor Florence Hazrat talks to light-researcher Dr Annette Krop-Benesch on the impending loss of our night sky, and what we can do about it.

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Posted in Environment, Health and Wellbeing, InterviewsTagged: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Constellations, Dr Annette Krop-Benesch, Environment, Environmentalism, light, light pollution, Night / Shift, Shakespeare, Star, The Merchant of Venice

Review of The Sun: Living With Our Star at the Science Museum

12th December 20184th February 2019  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Arts editor, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou is dazzled by the Science Museum’s current exhibition, The Sun: Living With Our Star.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Environment, STEMTagged: Apollo, Climate Change, Copernicus, Etienne Trouvelot, Galileo, Health, Helios, James Nasmyth, Jimmy Carter, Myth, NASA, Newton, Sol, Solar energy, Star, sun
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