15 Feb 2024
Night sky highlights - March 2024
Discover what to see in March's night sky, including the spring triangle, stunning lunar features and Mercury at greatest elongation.
07 Feb 2024
Opium and Empires workshop
A recent visit to the Caird Library by students from the School of Oriental and African Studies shows that making collections accessible is a two-way street.
25 Jan 2024
Night sky highlights - February 2024
Discover what to see in February's night sky, including the Lynx constellation, some stunning spiral galaxies and a planetary conjunction for those in the Southern Hemisphere.
18 Dec 2023
Night sky highlights - January 2024
Discover what to see in January's night sky, including the Quadrantid meteor shower, close lunar encounters of Jupiter and the Pleiades, and a stunning swarm of stars from the Beehive Cluster.
08 Dec 2023
Preserving hiss-story: conserving a taxidermy snake
A look at the treatment of a taxidermy puff adder captured by the crew of HMS Terrible
31 Oct 2023
Astronomy news from the Astronomy Ambassadors Group - October 2023
See what cosmic news our young people have found for you!
30 Oct 2023
What is a nocturnal?
Learn more about the nocturnal or ‘nocturlabe’, used for centuries to tell the time based on the movement of the stars