The Audrey Hepburn

The Audrey Hepburn

The Audrey Hepburn was called after a commander’s Daniels Rastoropnov’s fiancee, who patiently waited for him on Earth while he was exploring the asteroids belt.

When we found the sky of this tiny planet a kind of pinkish-yellow rather than the blue which had erroneously first been reported, the announcement was greeted by a chorus of good-natured boos from the public – people wanted the other planets to be, even in this respect, like the Earth.

And yet the Audrey’s landscapes are staggering, the vistas breathtaking.

A long television series was made about the planet. In fact, we all are oriented toward astronomy and we are engaged to it with our heart as well as the mind. Some television series aimed at popular audiences, visually and musically stunning, prove that the public is far more intelligent than it has generally been given credit for; the deepest scientific questions on the nature and origin of the world excite the interests and passions of enormous numbers of people.

(Extract from The Rain, the famous SF novel by Elena and George B.)

Communication of science in an engaging and accessible way. Illustration: © Megan Jorgensen (Elena)

(Many illustrations in this book are based on the striking visuals prepared by NeuroscienceTv for the television series. In fact, books and television series have somewhat different audiences and admit different approaches. This novel and Neuroscience television series represent a hopeful experiment in communicating some of the ideas, methods and joys of science).