I have always wanted to fly around in a spaceship seeing lots of lovely stars and planets and other curious beautiful things that exist out there. To stop getting too frustrated, I have looked on the Earth as a sort of spaceship travelling around giving everyone an eye on the universe. This is okay until [...]

Did you ever walk around town, getting annoyed at all the rubbish? It’s quite easy to pick it up and put it in a bin, although you wouldn’t think so looking at the state of some areas. In space, unfortunately, there are no litter bins are no floating cleanup people with a long stick happily [...]

Everything you need to know about the North star. No, it’s not as boring as it sounds! Be a north star expert. By slacker Astronomy //

Normally I write an article on physics or space but sometimes I will be going through a few links of a few blogs that are quite good for all sorts of things about space and physics. This is called a carnival and if you look on the Internet you’ll find a lot of other links [...]

The Sun is quite a useful piece of the solar system. Without it, let’s face it, we wouldn’t be here, so when it starts doing odd things it is a cause for concern. sunspots appear normally and are a regular feature of the Sun. So how do sunspots affect the Earth? Should we really worry [...]

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There is a massive mystery in the universe, Dark Energy and Dark Matter. Nobody knows what these evil things could be or that they are proof that the universe’s laws we have made up are total rubbish. The dark stuff does sound a bit hellish but that’s just a name and a bit inappropriate as [...]

Parallel universes have always been used in science fiction as a great tool, but, as science fiction has a funny way of turning into fact (see Arthur C. Clark’s predictions) having parallel universes is getting very close to being a fact although they are theory at the moment. But how can our universe (or the [...]

Have you ever looked up into the sky and wondered what was going to drop onto your head? When you look up what do you see? Well if I was to do it now I would see a load of black clouds as I live in the rainy UK  which tends to give me a [...]

Light is one of those things that you take for granted just switching on a switch or, if you are a caveman, lighting a fire. It appears almost instantaneously as that switch clicks or fire bursts into life. But, you know what I’m going to say don’t you, it’s not that simple. It takes time [...]

It may be a bit of a long way away (26,000 ly)  but it is an interesting place to go.  At 26,000 light years away it would take  26,000 years as measured by clocks on Earth at the speed of light, and no time at all as measured by your watch. Time is relative, not fixed. [...]

Wouldn’t it be great to surf to a website and find out about any planet, Star or literally anything else in the galaxy? Just think of all the forums, chat and possibilities for communication that a galaxy wide Internet would give us. Could this be done? It would need a rather long cable.  I am [...]

I was tempted just to post a blank page, but that still wouldn’t have been nothing and would have been cheating. So here we go… Let’s say you walk into a room and there is “nothing in it” — no objects of any kind, no furniture and no people. It’s just four walls, a ceiling [...]

We’re destined to go to the stars. That’s the assumption we’ve been making for a century, and I daresay most readers believe this as surely as they believe we’ll eventually cure dandruff. Our anticipation of an interstellar destiny is not merely the consequence of too many couch-hours spent watching Spandex-suited astronauts in Star Trek, Star [...]

Looking at the universe I have always thought it odd that planets were round and not some other shape. To make a sphere on earth isn’t really that easy.  I can’t say that I have tried it  But just trying to get a lump of plasticine into a sphere with your hands is almost impossible. On [...]

I have always thought that I would love to go into space. A low altitude orbit would be okay but there is no way to do it at the moment as it costs just that little bit too much. This means that I have watched Apollo 13 about 13 times and also watched films like [...]