Space & PhysicsOctober 30, 2011
The Closest You'll Ever Get to Being in Space
Stories by Kelly Oakes
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.
Space & PhysicsOctober 28, 2011
Blue stragglers formed by engulfing red giants
The SciencesOctober 17, 2011
Light from starburst galaxies makes the best cosmic disinfectant
The SciencesSeptember 29, 2011
In praise of the Tevatron
The SciencesSeptember 23, 2011
Faster-than-light neutrinos show science in action
The SciencesSeptember 23, 2011
An impossible star?
Space & PhysicsSeptember 8, 2011
For a realistic Milky Way simulation, just add clustered star formation
The SciencesAugust 18, 2011
Double checking our cosmic tape measure
The SciencesAugust 15, 2011
Oxygen might be hiding behind grains of cosmic dust
The SciencesAugust 10, 2011
Look up and see the "stars" tonight...
August 2, 2011
On the origin of chemical elements
Space & PhysicsJuly 29, 2011
A stellar nursery in Orion
Space & PhysicsJuly 26, 2011
Jupiter sneaked up on asteroid belt, then ran away
Space & PhysicsJuly 21, 2011
We're cosmic dust but you're everything to me
July 7, 2011
Cassini helps us peek underneath the surface of Enceladus
July 5, 2011
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.
December 29, 2010
Habitable and not-so-habitable exoplanets: How the latter can tell us more about our origins than the former