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Brief history of how we brought the stars indoors to planetariums

Chris Starr Martin Bush June 12, 2025

Rubin Observatory assembling the most complete time-lapse record of the universe

Chris Starr Noelia Noël June 9, 2025

New model helps to figure out which distant planets may host life

Chris Starr Daniel Apai June 5, 2025

Landing on the Moon is still an incredibly difficult feat in 2025

Chris Starr Zhenbo Wang June 2, 2025

Astronaut Sally Ride’s legacy – encouraging young women to embrace science and engineering

Chris Starr Bonnie Dunbar May 26, 2025

Voyager Missions Word Search

Chris Starr Chase Clark May 22, 2025

Radioisotope generators are the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft

Chris Starr Benjamin Roulston May 20, 2025

Voyager 1 thrusters, inoperable for 21 years, fixed from 15 billion miles away

Chris Starr NASA JPL May 19, 2025

Scientists discover ancient buried beach on Mars

Chris Starr Aaron J. Cavosie May 15, 2025

Mars may have once had a carbon cycle more favorable for life

Chris Starr Elisabeth Hausrath May 13, 2025
Chris Starr
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Chris Starr

Chris Starr FRAS FBIS, IAAA Associate Member, is a space activist, writer and speaker. He worked as Head of Geography and Space Science at an international school in Switzerland until 2011, where he built a small observatory and organised public outreach events in the Alps, including the design and installation of an outdoor exhibition for IYA 2009 in the ski resort of Villars.

He left secondary teaching in 2011 to continue working in STEM outreach in the UK. He founded the Wells & Mendip Astronomers in Somerset, of which he is Chairman.

A Fellow of both the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society, he is also a contributing writer for the BIS’ ‘Spaceflight’ magazine. He is an Associate Member of the International Association of Astronomical Artists, for whom he organised a major astronomical and space art show in Wells in 2015.

Originally a graduate of the London School of Economics, Chris has also studied Astronomy and Planetary Science with the Open University. His main fields of interest are in Planetary and Earth Sciences and Solar System history, as well as in unmanned and manned space exploration. He has been fascinated by the space programme since hearing the captivating ‘bleep-bleep’ of Sputnik as a young child, and believes firmly that, in the words of Tsiolkovsky, we ‘cannot remain in the cradle forever.

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