Marek Kukula

The Star of Bethlehem finds a new dedicated follower

12 December 2015 9:00 am

It’s hard to imagine Christmas without stars. They perch at the top of fir trees, glitter from greeting cards and…

Following Galileo’s discoveries, a rugged, cratered moon is depicted (with papal approval) by Ludovico Cigoli in his ‘Assumption of the Virgin in the Pauline Chapel’

Moving heaven and earth: Galileo’s subversive spyglass

11 April 2015 9:00 am

We live in an age of astronomical marvels. Last year Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft made a daring rendezvous with the comet…