Iain Todd

Staff Writer

Iain Todd is BBC Sky at Night Magazine's Staff Writer.

Recent articles by Iain Todd

Linda Morabito’s computer displays the image in which Io’s volcanic plume was revealed. Image provided by Bill Peters and used with permission.

Volcanoes on Io: an interview with Voyager scientist Linda Morabito

Sarah Stewart Johnson. Credit: Georgetown University

The Sirens of Mars: interview with planetary scientist Sarah Stewart Johnson

Nobel Prize winner James Peebles. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images

Cosmology’s Century: interview with Nobel physicist PJE Peebles

NASA 10-year Sun time lapse. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO

Eye On The Sky Watch NASA's incredible 10-year time lapse of the Sun

The sharpest view ever taken of the Orion Nebula, 1,500 lightyears away, reveals over 3,000 stars of differing sizes nestling within the vast cavern of rolling dust and gas. Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto ( Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team

Eye On The Sky Hubble Space Telescope's glorious view of the Orion Nebula

AB Aurigae. Credit: ESO/Boccaletti et al.

Eye On The Sky Gaseous twist may reveal young planet in orbit around a star

Galaxy cluster MACS J0416. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Montes (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)

Galaxy cluster MACS J0416 reveals clues about early Universe

An artist's impression of Earth-like exoplanet Kepler-186f. Credit: NASA

Earth-like exoplanets may be more common than thought

Best portable telescopes for astronomy travel. Credit: Anton Petrus / Getty Images

12 of the best travel telescopes 2020

Galaxy NGC 5861, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.

Eye On The Sky Hubble spies an intermediate spiral galaxy

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo by Julian Leek/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

SpaceX Crew Dragon launches in historic first crewed flight

The glare of light pollution can be a menace for amateur astronomers. Credit: Steve Marsh

61% live under ‘severe light pollution’, says UK survey

2001: A Space Odyssey. Credit: Movie Poster Image Art/Getty Images

Film and TV reviews

23 best space and sci-fi movies of all time

Earth from space: the Red Sea Coast of Saudi Arabia captured from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/ESA

Eye On The Sky Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast glimmers in International Space Station image

A view of Venus captured by JAXA's Akatsuki orbiter. © PLANET-C Project Team

Radio Astronomy Podcast Venus special: farewell to the evening star