A great interactive guide explaining everything you need to know about black holes.read more | digg story

Astronauts swung open the door to their new space station addition Saturday and floated into the spacious and sparkling white room, formally christening it Harmony. Harmony will function as a nerve center, providing air, electricity and water for the space station.read more | digg story

Well its finally here! I have just upgraded my Macbook to the new Westie operating system and I’m already seeing the advantages. For starters my lovely white mac has already acquired a really handy muddy fringe just below the trackpad. Gorgeous!

For ease of use, Westie also allows you to browse…

Chris Lintott is reporting on his blog on Comet Holmes, which ought to be a magnitude 17 object but recently clocked in at mag 10 and then mag 3, making it a naked-eye visible comet (even from Cardiff if you’re lucky).

So can you see it? Why not have a go? Go…

My Ten Strangest Things in Space was picked up by fark.com yesterday and thus another 10,000 hits have battered my Site5 servers. Amongst the comment section of the fark entry was a picture that really made me laugh. A user called Lamune_Baba has modified the solar spectrum to create this:

Hilarious!

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Here’s a cool thing: I now have a picture of my retinas. Below you can see both my eyes (left then right in case you were wondering) in full colour, as photographed by my optician. Whilst explaining to me what I was looking at, she also told me something I…

After nearly a solid week of dropping hints, Stephen Colbert threw his hat in the ring in the race for president tonight.

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The Over Cardiff and related Twitter feeds should now only issue warnings when the weather is fine. This has been achieved using Yahoo! Weather’s RSS API, which returns the weather for each location when the script checks for visible ISS passes.

In case you don’t know, Over Cardiff is one of…

Stuart over at Astronomy Blog is trying to organise the creation of an XML structure for astronomical observations. He proposed the idea a short while ago but has recently posted anew with regard to getting some help in creating an XML schema for this new kind of feed. This sort of…

I have been playing with Google Sky recently. As a sort of case-study, I made for myself a little script that overlays data from NASA’s SkyView website onto Google Sky. If you don’t know, SkyView dubs itself a ‘virtual telescope’. Essentially its a way to look up regions of the sky…

I finally caught the Space Station in Cardiff last night.

Having rained on me all day, it finally cleared up and was almost cloudless at both times for the ISS going over. Caught a few crappy photos, one of which is right here. You can see the ISS as a little…

If you haven’t already then now is the time to subscribe to the Twitter feeds I made for many cities around the world. As of about the 4th of October it will once again become dark enough that the International Space Station (ISS) will become visible in the evenings over…