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Don’t they ever look up?

Image via Wikipedia A few days ago there was a spate of telephone calls received at police stations in the north of England and in Scotland. People were reporting seeing a very bright object moving...

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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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This Earth

The Earth seen from Apollo 17. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I was watching  a repeat broadcast of a television program the other day which described our solar system and its wonders. The program was...

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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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Just because

Enjoy The comet showing in the last couple of frames just reminded me that a rather bright and large comet has recently been discovered and it looks like it’s headed our way sometime in 2013....

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Would you go?

Mars, 2001, with the southern polar ice cap visible on the bottom. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It is proposed that by the year 2023 four humans will set foot on the planet Mars. Two years after that four...

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It is getting better……honest!

Location of the Channel Islands A couple of days ago I was sitting at home writing one of my posts and mentioning something about the brilliant sunshine we were enjoying in our part of the country....

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Another let down?

Earlier in the year there were reports of a potentially exceptional display of cosmic grandeur to look forward to this November, a new comet had been discovered and initial assessments indicated that...

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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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Now I am older

Moon Base One (Photo credit: Wikipedia) That is true for each of us. We all get older sure enough and some of us get wiser with that too. If we didn’t become wiser as we age we will have spent our...

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