Paul Murdin

Paul Murdin is a British astronomer, author and Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge. He has spent decades as both a practising astronomer and a science communicator, making the wonders of the universe accessible to general audiences. He has held senior positions at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the British National Space Centre and the Royal Astronomical Society. The Secret Lives of Planets explores the solar system and beyond, revealing the hidden stories, surprising characteristics and remarkable behaviours of the planets, moons and other bodies that share our cosmic neighbourhood. Murdin writes with the authority of a professional astronomer and the enthusiasm of someone who has never lost his sense of wonder at the universe. Available as both a book and an audiobook, The Secret Lives of Planets offers fascinating listening and reading for space enthusiasts, science lovers and anyone who looks up at the night sky and wants to know more about our planetary neighbours.