Read the report: Space Zone Report – June 2019 [PDF]

The Space Zone was a themed zone for primary schools supported by the Science & Technology Facilities Council and NCOP schools. It featured six scientists:

• Nicolas Bonne studies galaxies and finds ways to allow people with sight problems to learn about space.
• Laurence Datrier is researching ways to find out when neutron stars collide.
• Emma Davies studies massive explosions from the Sun that can hit Earth.
• Declan Jonckers organises the design and manufacture of Multi-Layer Insulations, a ‘space blanket’ which helps to keep a spacecraft’s temperature at the right level.
• Bella Boulderstone, the winner in the Space Zone, tries to find the size of structures around supermassive black holes using dust as a space radar.
• Ali Hussain develops instruments to generate light to interact with matter in space and show its properties.