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Why we need to decolonise the skies

Astronomer Dr Tana Joseph explores how rethinking way we look at the stars could improve our relationship with our own planet and make it a healthier place to live.

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How light pollution affects our circadian rhythms

Too much of the wrong sort of light can send our natural cycles off-kilter – is city life messing with your circadian rhythm?

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When the sun goes down

Despite the country’s colonial and industrial dominion, the finest minds of Victorian Britain began to fear the devastating effects of declining natural resources. Even the death of the sun.

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To stop or stay on lithium

In the final part of her investigation into lithium, Laura Grace Simpkins faces a dilemma – should she put her own mental health or other people and the planet first?

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  • Astronomical houses. Watercolour.
  • Thai Astronomical manuscripts on fortune telling
  • Hebrew astronomical diagram.
  • Astronomical Ring of an unusual type, signed "Butterfield Paris". Undated, circa 1690. This instrument is closer to an equinoctial ring dial than most astronomical rings.
  • Illustrations of astronomical instruments, Beijing, China
  • Astronomical Ring of an unusual type, showing the side of the instrument "Butterfield Paris". Undated, circa 1690. This instrument is closer to an equinoctial ring dial than most astronomical rings.
  • Description of the astronomical instruments, Beijing, China
  • Astronomical lecture on the new dioastrodoxon, or, grand transparent orrery : twenty-one feet in diameter.
  • Portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus, half length holding astronomical device
  • Clocks: an elaborate astronomical mantel clock. Coloured lithograph, [c.1875?].
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