Londonist Out Loud: A Podcast About London
Discover what Sir Isaac Newton ‘borrowed’ and how Sir Patrick Moore helped put man on the moon, at the Royal Observatory Greenwich with N Quentin Woolf.
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Top Things To Do In The Royal Borough Of Greenwich
Royal palaces, scale a landmark, early music and cheese.
Exhibition Review: Alien Revolution @ Royal Observatory
What would aliens look like and would they be hostile?
Arts Ahead: What’s On In London 22-28 February
Our guide to this week’s most interesting theatre, art, dance and opera picks. With news about Marti Pellow, Les Dennis *and* Paul Daniels
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It’s all change for some of London’s institutions: click through to find out which one is moving, which one is down-sizing, and which is counting the pennies…
From The Royal Observatory: The Gemini Astrolabe
In the second of three posts, we focus on individual exhibits and novelties from the collection of our Museum of the Month – the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Tudor England is not generally thought of as a hotbed of scientific progress. But the great voyages of …
Museum of the Month: Royal Observatory, Greenwich
Should Dr Who ever need a retirement home, he could do a lot worse than the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The hill-top complex is steeped in associations with both time and space. Everyone knows that it straddles the Prime Meridian, from which the whole planet calculates …
Photography Review: Space Photographer of the Year 2009 @ Royal Observatory, Greenwich
The Space Photographer of the Year 2009 results were announced last week and having had a sneak peek at some of the entries we couldn’t wait to get the Royal Observatory and see the winners and judges favourites. This first time event coincides with the …
Beauty Of Saturn Comes To Greenwich
NASA/JPL London seems to be Space Central at the moment. Following news that Buzz Aldrin will be in town in early July, we now hear that the key players behind the Cassini mission to Saturn will be talking at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich next week. …
Free Tonight?
Is there anybody there? Greenwich might seem a long way to go of an evening, but a trip to the Royal Observatory tonight will transport you several hundred million kilometres further. ‘Islands, canals and little green men’ examines early efforts to explore Mars. Before the …
Notes From The Flora London Marathon
And so the big day arrives with a bang! I’m up early and cycling through quiet city streets already dappled with sunlight, cameras slung around my shoulders. I switch to public transport to make my way over to the Red Start in Greenwich Park and …
