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Telescopes and space missions

Telescopes and space missions

To infinity, beyond and back again

08 Jan 2015 Tushna Commissariat
Taken from the January 2015 issue of Physics World

Tushna Commissariat reviews the film Interstellar directed by Christopher Nolan and the book The Science of Interstellar by Kip Thorne

Still photo from the film Interstellar showing a spacecraft hurtling through space
The stunning visual effects in Interstellar were based on the physics research of Kip Thorne. (Courtesy: Paramount/Warner Brothers/The Kobal Collection)
“We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down and

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