Stories
- Article
Illness and the influence of the stars
Could alien germs from space have caused major pandemics across the world? Taras Young investigates the ideas of a few unconventional scientists who believe this to be the case.
- Article
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.
- Article
Divining the world through an artist’s almanac
Amanda Couch's artists book, 'Huwawa in the Everyday: an almanac' is inspired by the entrail like folds of a medieval folding and its function as a guide for astrological divinations linking the body, health and the heavens. Like the original almanac her work is designed to be carried out into the wider world.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Star chart
Chaussegros, Vital, b.1769.Date: 1815Reference: MS.1558Part of: Chaussegros, Vital (1769- )- Archives and manuscripts
Star chart
Chaussegros, Vital, b.1769.Date: 1816Reference: MS.1560Part of: Chaussegros, Vital (1769- )- Digital Images
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Star fruit, axial view, MRI
Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford- Archives and manuscripts
Star Shaped Pattern (artwork)
Date: c. 1940sReference: PP/RSI/B/2/1/20Part of: Rita Simon Collection- E-journals
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Star and Evening Advertiser (1788)