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. Paul contributes regularly to the BBC Sky at Night magazine and has authored books on astronomy and advised on others.

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. 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 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.

Elizabeth Howell first got hooked into space exploration after watching the movie Apollo 13, as a young teenager. In the decades since, she has become an award-winning freelance journalist specializing in space. She is one of only a handful of Canadian journalists who regularly reports on the space program in Canada and internationally.

Her work has appeared in specialty publications such as SPACE.com, Universe Today, Physics World, Air & Space Smithsonian and All About Space, as well as mainstream outlets such as the Globe and Mail, Florida Today, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., CTV, the Ottawa Citizen and the Ottawa Business Journal.

Elizabeth holds an M.Sc. Space Studies from the University of North Dakota and in her spare time, travels to space museums and space-themed events. Career highlights include covering three space shuttle launches in Florida, and attending NASA/Smithsonian Institution activities in Washington, D.C. celebrating the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11. Elizabeth also is a member of the Canadian Science Writers' Association

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.

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.