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What do we do when we get there?
Image via Wikipedia It has been a long time since I wrote about Space travel or Astronomy. Two of my favourite subjects deserve a better airing but I have other things to think about. Humankind has...
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Another near miss?
Image via Wikipedia A short while ago I published a post about asteroids and the danger they present to our world. In Tunguska, Siberia early in the last century an object, possibly a comet but may...
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Transit
Diagram showing how transits of Venus occur and why they don’t occur frequently. Drawn by User:Theresa Knott; License see:...
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Solstice
Figures The Golden Calf (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Very late in the evening (local time UK) of the 20th of June the Earth reached the point in its orbit whereby due to its axial tilt the Sun would be at...
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Mars
Mars, 2001, with the southern polar ice cap visible on the bottom. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I don’t know how many of my readers actually browse the links over on the right-hand side of this page but I...
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Determined and driven
NASA astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, Jr. (left) and European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang, both STS-116 mission specialists, participate in the mission’s first of three planned sessions of...
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: Total Solar eclipse 1999 in France. * Additional noise reduction performed by Diliff. Original image by Luc Viatour. Français : L’éclipse totale de soleil en 1999 faite en France. * Réduction du...
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All about nothing really
View image | gettyimages.com I had three shots at sleep on Sunday night. It was deliberate. I set my alarm for 02.00 and went to sleep around 10.00. I wanted to see the ‘Blood Moon’ eclipse. I duly...
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