What’s online

We pick the best astronomy events and resources available online this month

UK Goes to the Moon

Libby Jackson, human exploration programme manager for the UK Space Agency, talks about the UK’s role in building technology for a return to the Moon. bit.ly/Libbyjackson

PODCAST

The Space Above Us

A lively, fact-packed look at every crewed NASA spaceflight, from Mercury to the Space Shuttles and everything in between, with JP Burke from NASA. http://thespaceabove.us

RADIO

The Food Chain: Made in Space

How studying plant growth in space – with low gravity and little or no natural light – may revolutionise food production on our increasingly populous planet. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csyp1n

Witness History: A Space Crash

The British astronaut on board a supply vessel that crashed into the Mir space station in 1997 gives a first-hand perspective of what is the worst collision in the history of manned space flight. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cszmtq

ONLINE COURSES

Astronomy: Exploring Time and Space Get a grounding in all things astronomy, with this free 44-hour online course, including lecture videos, quizzes and some written assignments. www.coursera.org/learn/astro

CITIZEN SCIENCE

Disc detectives wanted

Join the hunt for new circumstellar discs, where new planets are born, by comparing NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) images with data from other space surveys. bit.ly/Discdetective Spiral Graph project

Trace the spiral arms that you see in galaxy images – and learn how to measure their ‘pitch angles’ – as part of a useful project to help scientists find interesting candidate galaxies for future study. bit.ly/Spiral-graphproject