View from the ISS at Night on Vimeo # THIS IS A MUST-WATCH, USE HD IF POSS
This is one of those videos where you realise a connection between science and humanity; it’s very simple: there’s a big window on the ISS now – in a whole bunch of ways it doesn’t need to be there,...
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Mars 360-degree Flash Panorama /ht @webmink
panorama is here – website seems to be annoyingly wedded to Facebook.
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Introducing “British Economic Time” aka “Sunrise Time”– the ultimate...
I’m ranting about this on Facebook so I might as well share the amusement. Generally twice a year on the Today programme you’ll get a package or programme segment about “the clocks are going...
View ArticleIntroducing Comet ISON # Can I call dibs on end-of-the-world...
This: In early 2013 October it will pass very near Mars and possibly be visible to rovers and orbiting spacecraft. Comet ISON appears on course to achieve sungrazer status as it passes within a solar...
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“That’s no Planetary Nebula!”
APOD: 2012 October 8 – Spherical Planetary Nebula Abell 39.
View ArticleJapanese cubesat to flash Earth with Morse message • The Register
Scan the night sky next month and you may witness a rather unusual phenomenon – an tiny Japanese satellite using LEDs to beam a Morse code message earthwards. The message will come from FITSAT-1, or...
View ArticleASTRONOMY IN THE PUB – #AstroPub /ht @jimanning @gammidgy #puballthethings #sitp
Presumably Reading will be first? http://astropub.co.uk/about.php PUB ALL THE THINGS!
View ArticleThe maths that made Voyager possible #MUSTREAD #MUSTTV
This is where I will be tomorrow evening – I shall warm up the television and actually bother watching something live for once. This is what makes us human. Shame we don’t do more of it, but props to...
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I benefited today from a dose of #AwesomeScience; let me share it with you:
It’s very simple. Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_return_trajectory Then read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_points Then read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissajous_orbit Then read:...
View ArticleInside NASA’s Mysterious Rubber Room
Ever since learning about the Rubber Room and Blast Room deep below launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center I had been hopeful that I would one day get to photograph this mysterious remnant of the...
View ArticleIn Case There Was Still Any Doubt, Here’s the Top Ten Reasons We Know the...
In Case There Was Still Any Doubt, Here’s the Top Ten Reasons We Know the Earth Is Round. Now I want to find a playground with a roundabout, and take a basketball with me.
View Articlemoon hoax not # thoughtful and intelligent, unlike some of its viewers. /ht...
Also, for some reason it needs to be said: …the point being the deletion of “sapiens” from “homo sapiens”. Think about it.
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If you want to try tracking the Asteroid 2012 DA14 fly-by tonight, use...
Method: Visit Heavens Above Location Database and search for your location Pick your Location from the responses for the search When redirected to the homepage, click the Click here for a sky chart and...
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“He would have to keep 2 to 3 inches away to not get sucked into the funnel”...
There are 4 basic parts in a space toilet, the liquid waste vacuum tube, the vacuum chamber, the waste storage drawers, and the solid waste collection bags. The liquid waste vacuum tube is a 2 to...
View Article80 years from now we can expect Doritos From Space
In 2008, Doritos embarked upon an “out-of-this-world” advertising campaign, literally beaming a 30sec ad for Doritos brand tortilla chips into a solar system 42 light years away. This project is in...
View ArticleI have a bunch of 1983-86 issues of “Astronomy”, “BAA Journal” and similar...
…anyone wants them? Telescopes of your childhood, anyone?
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