Sofia Science Festival
The Sofia Science Festival, organized chiefly by the British Council in Bulgaria, is approaching, so here is a list of the program items I’ll be participa...
Tag: astronomy
This year’s astrobiology seminar
The astrobiology seminar at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, starts this week. This time, we’ve got three guest speakers from abroad:...
Reality catches up with SF faster than SF proceeds
Many science fiction authors have probably experienced the feeling when something you wrote about in SF just a few years ago becomes reality. Hells, I even aske...
Could we learn more about pulsar planets?
This is a question that has baffled me for some time. The first confirmed exoplanets were discovered around a pulsar, we know now of three – vastly differ...
2017: Swedish Odyssey AKA Astrobiology in Sweden
A yearly meeting of the Astrobiology Centre of the Stockholm University took place this month in Tällberg. Its sessions covered topics ranging from habitability...
Making ESA ready for the future
At the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, I had the honor of being among the students awarded with ESA’s Student Sponsorship to attend the con...
It was a very good year…
That time of skeletons creeping down chimneys and eldritch carols has passed, and the time of reflecting upon the closing calendar year is here in its full stre...
Eurocon 2016: Venus, Fermi paradox and more
This year’s Eurocon is approaching fast! The convention will be held in Barcelona on November 4-6. The program has been ready for a couple of weeks, and t...
IAC 2016, Part 2: Moonshots and deep oceans
The International Astronautical Congress had been full of interesting talks, people and events. We’ve already discussed the budding race to Mars, but there was ...
ESA Citizens’ Debate
Today was the historically first ESA Citizens’ Debate: an event spanning two continents (ESA member and cooperating states in Europe, and Canada, working ...
