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Alastair Williams
2 min readMar 7, 2021

Welcome! And thank you for checking out my profile.

This is a cool picture of a dying star, which we call the Helix Nebula. It has nothing to do with me, I just think it looks nice. NASA made the image, and you can read more about it on their page.

About Me

I am Alastair Williams, the human behind this profile. I have been a physicist, briefly worked in extra-galactic astronomy and, for the last decade or so, a space industry professional. In the past years I’ve worked with space systems, helped build telescopes, flown satellites in space and done my best to advance our progress beyond Earth.

About My Writing

Most of my writing focuses on science, technology, and space. From time to time I also cover health and well-being, study and work, travel, and photography.

I publish many articles through Medium, all of which you can find through my profile. I also publish regularly on my Substack site, which you can find here. Subscriptions are free, but I also offer extra content to those happy to support my work. I’m pleased to offer a discount for my Medium readers here.

My Top Articles on Medium

My Top Articles on Substack

As a reminder, you can also find me on Substack. Subscriptions are free, but Medium users can get a 40% discount on a full subscription (including access to all my writing and archives) by clicking here.

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Alastair Williams

Exploring the relationship between humanity and science | Physicist | Space Mission Engineer | Subscribe at www.thequantumcat.space/ |