
The Closest You'll Ever Get to Being in Space
Kelly Oakes has a master's degree in science communication and a degree in physics, both from Imperial College London. She started this blog so she could share some amazing stories about space, astrophysics, particle physics and more with other people, and partly so she could explore those stories herself.

The Closest You'll Ever Get to Being in Space

Blue stragglers formed by engulfing red giants

Light from starburst galaxies makes the best cosmic disinfectant

In praise of the Tevatron

Faster-than-light neutrinos show science in action

An impossible star?

For a realistic Milky Way simulation, just add clustered star formation

Double checking our cosmic tape measure

Oxygen might be hiding behind grains of cosmic dust

Look up and see the "stars" tonight...

On the origin of chemical elements

A stellar nursery in Orion

Jupiter sneaked up on asteroid belt, then ran away

We're cosmic dust but you're everything to me

Cassini helps us peek underneath the surface of Enceladus

Welcome to Basic Space!
Welcome to Basic Space. For those who read my blog before (all three of you…), this is going to be much the same, only bigger and better.

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