The Eagle Nebula is 7,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens. This particular column of gas and dust is an enormous 91.7 trillion kilometres long.

The Eagle Nebula is 7,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens. This particular column of gas and dust is an enormous 91.7 trillion kilometres long.
There’s a secondhand bookshop that pops up next to my office every Wednesday during semester. Wednesday is market day – we have a number of
This week’s picture features the space shuttle Endeavour docked at the International Space Station. The photo was taken during STS-118 in August 2007. Credit: NASA
When people discover that I teach Creative Writing, one of the most common responses is “Oh, I’ve always wanted to write a novel. Do you
This would have to be one of my favourite pictures. Taken from the space shuttle Discovery in August 2005, the International Space Station is poised
Allow me to digress from the hallowed grounds of science fiction and venture into neighbouring pastures. I have become increasingly drawn to the genre of