Twitpics from Space
ISS astronaut Soichi Noguchi gets quite a view! Lucky for us he’s tweeting much of it from onboard the ISS. Here is a small sample and all the links to get you going.
ISS astronaut Soichi Noguchi gets quite a view! Lucky for us he’s tweeting much of it from onboard the ISS. Here is a small sample and all the links to get you going.
In March I will begin working at Oxford University, as a postdoctoral researcher in citizen science. The ‘post’-doctoral part of that title means that I must submit my PhD thesis by the end of this month. Eek! It has been on the boil for some time now, and I’m pleased to say that next week [...]
New Hubble images of Pluto have revealed that the surface of the dwarf planet changed between 2000 and 2002.
After a recent talk at Allensbank Primary School, I received questions for many of the children. Here are answer to three of them…
Hearing that a nebula I knew little about was mapped by Herschel made me go and find out more. The Polaris Flare is a cirrus nebula that appears to surround the North Star. Here’s a bit more about it – pretty pictures included.
The Orbiting Frog Shop is back online, selling my own designs on t-shirts and other products. To kick things off here are a collection of products featuring my favourite star constellations.
This amazing image shows the UK covered in snow, from the NASA Earth Observatory program website and it was taken today, January 7th!
A really quick to show my snaps of yesterday’s partial lunar eclipse, on a blue moon. You can see the little bite taken out of the Moon on the lower-right, caused by the Earth’s shadow. Happy New Year. Photos above and below using different processing.
2010 is going to be a big year for me and my family. I will be submitting my thesis in February and am currently applying for jobs.
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