Paul Sutherland has been a professional journalist for nearly 40 years including more than 25 years on leading popular Fleet Street titles including the Daily Mirror, Today and The Sun, which dubbed him "The Sun Spaceman". He has had a keen interest in astronomy and spaceflight for even longer.

In recent years, he has worked as a freelance communicator on space matters for the popular market. As well as contributing to a variety of publications, including regular features for BBC Sky at Night magazine, he has authored two books on astronomy and advised on others. He has his own astronomy website Skymania.com.

Paul has long been a supporter the UK’s leading society for beginners to stargazing, the Society for Popular Astronomy, including long spells editing its journal Popular Astronomy, News Circulars, and website. He is also a member of the British Astronomical Association, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and belongs to the Association of British Science Writers.

Mark is an astronomer and broadcaster. Mark is the BBC One Show's Astronomer and has been a contributor to The Sky At Night and The Culture Show. Mark is also part of the BBC Stargazing Live team with Professor Brian Cox and Dara O Briain.

Mark is also a qualified pilot. Born in Norfolk he has had a fascination with all things in the sky ever since he was a small boy.

January 2011 saw Mark as part of the successful BBC Stargazing Live Presenting team, where he was pivotal in inspiring 3.62 million viewers to get out and enjoy the night sky.

Mark can also be heard also on the Lesley Dolphin Afternoon Show, at lunchtimes on 1st Thursday of each month, on BBC Radio Suffolk. Embracing social networking media, Mark 'tweets' regularly with thousands of followers and he is now working with a number of agencies on some exciting new projects for the coming years.

At the age of 10 he got his first view through a telescope; Saturn, rings and all, hanging there against a velvet black sky. It was for real, not a picture in a book, another world billions of miles away. It ignited a passion that has stayed with him ever since. As an astronomy populariser, he has been keen to show a new, enthusiastic and fresh face to the public and to that end has for the last 20 years, lectured on a vast array of astronomical subjects from the Moon to Black Holes and the end of the Universe. His research interests have chiefly centred on deep space, the study of stars exploding at the end of their lives and of distant galaxies believed to host super-massive black holes in their cores.

In his quest to show us a new image of astronomers, Mark, who is now President of Norwich Astronomical Society astronomical society, has worked extensively with local media from newspaper, to radio and TV and his articles have been published in Astronomy Now, the national astronomy magazine. His enthusiastic outreach work and contemporary image led him to being elected to the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society in May 2010, the only amateur astronomer on the Council.

Mark Frary is the author of seven books including Freaky Future, a look at how we will live in the year 2050, Future Proof (with Nick Sagan and Andy Walker), about how sci-fi technologies are becoming reality, Better Living through Science, showing how people can use scientific theories in their everyday lives, and The Origins of the Universe for Dummies (with Stephen Pincock). 

He also writes regularly for The Times and a range of other publications, both in print and online, about science, technology, travel and skiing. 

Mark has a first class degree in astronomy and physics from University College London and worked at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory during his undergraduate years. He went on to do research on the LEP collider at the CERN nuclear physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland before turning to writing.

He is the co-founder of Social Travel Market, a conference on the uses of social media in travel, and is on the organising committee of Amprocks, a music festival in his home town of Ampthill, Bedfordshire, where he lives with his wife and two children.

Charles's interest in space began as a child when he imagined what existed before the universe (if it had a beginning), and what the universe was expanding in to if it was expanding. Aged 16 Charles knew his future was as an entrepreneur and he spent the next 2 years thinking about what business he would like to create. It was through this process of examining different business models that in 1990 aged 18 Charles discovered his original instinct and vision to create a business that would be capable of existing and expanding forever in space and time, and that meant a business that gathered news and information about space, essentially filming the universe for ever more. The vision for Sen had been born. Twitter: @charlesblack

Ben Gilliland joined the Metro newspaper in 1999 as graphics editor, and started the weekly MetroCosm science column in 2005, which allowed him to use his illustrative skills to explain some of science’s most complex ideas.

Since then MetroCosm has increased to a two-page feature and has become one of the paper's most popular sections.

Ben Gilliland has spoken about science journalism at the Royal Aeronautical Society and regularly teaches at the Media Space Summer School at Queen Mary, University of London.

In 2010 he was shortlisted for the Sir Arthur Clarke Award for Best Space Reporting – and again in 2011 for the Sir Arthur Clarke Award for Achievement in Space Media.

Ben recently became a freelance science communicator and has since written two books for Dorling Kindersley. He has helped several London schools build educational workshops based around his science features.

Amanda Doyle is a PhD student at Keele University where she works as part of the SuperWASP team in order to determine the properties of planet host stars. She writes for Astronomy Now Online and Skymania.com, and has had articles published in Popular Astronomy magazine. 

Amanda has had a fascination with science from a young age and this eventually became more focused into a love of astronomy. She obtained her degree in physics with astronomy at Dublin City University and her masters in astronomy from Swinburne University of Technology via the Swinburne Astronomy Online programme. She is currently a project supervisor for Swinburne Astronomy Online.