Eye on the sky — from Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory | Discover
For five decades, one of the world’s most important radio telescopes, gathering essential information about outer space, has operated from Puerto Rico’s Arecibo, at the heart of the Caribbean, writes Erline Andrews
Next stop: space | Discover
As more and more entrepreneurs look towards space exploration, it’s still almost unknown outside the industry that one of the world’s busiest launch sites is on the doorstep of the Caribbean. Erline Andrews learns how French Guiana’s half-century-old spaceport is essential to our future exploring the galaxy
Sombrero Island — a distant light | On this day
A small speck of land at the northern end of the Leewards, Sombrero Island is known to few — but has a surprisngly colourful history. James Ferguson tells tales of shipwrecks, guano mines, and the 150-year-old lighthouse that saved countless sailors’ lives in the dangerous Anegada Passage
Florida: state of sunshine
SHELL ISLANDS There’s always something special about strolling down a beach and coming across a gorgeously formed and coloured seashell....
Another giant leap: Camille Wardrop-Alleyne
In July 1969, when three-year-old Trinidadian Camille Wardrop watched astronaut Neil Armstrong take mankind’s first lumbering steps on...
Starwatch: Star Showers
Although two partial solar eclipses occur in July- on the 1st and 31st – they are not visible from the Caribbean region. Visitors...
Celestial Manoeuvres
At the time of writing this article last July, the Earth had just had three relatively close shaves with asteroids. An asteroid named 2001...
Is there anybody out there?
When I found a copy of Carl Sagan’s Contact in a secondhand bookstore, and somebody gave me another Sagan book on extraterrestrial life...
