The crew of the space shuttle Discovery including Dr Piers Sellers (former Edinburgh graduate and Briton) came to Edinburgh today to give a talk at Assembly Hall (which is just a fantastic building - every bit of the way, from the courtyard, which is oriented to frame the church spire between it's twin towers, to the enormous meeting room, with ( Read more... )

I've just caught up with the astronomy pictures of the day, following my trip to Vegas & Tucson, and wow, oh, wow, Cassini has done it again!

A view from Saturn's shadow - spot the Earth!


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Nice diagram of the shuttle re-entry procedure by BBC news.

Cool! The latest view from the International Space Station - volcano goes boom.


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I think this may be the perfect desktop wallpaper: Saturn in Blue and Gold


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I attended my only Edinburgh Science Festival event today with Michael Davidson - a talk by Will Whitehorn - Richard Branson's right-hand man and now president of Virgin Galactic. It was a truly inspiring talk - up there with Ken Wallis's autobiographical epic that should have lasted just an hour but took three! This talk was unfortunately only ( Read more... )