Cassini is now on it's way towards it's grand and ultimately destructive finale! Using Saturn's largest Moon titan to fling it into a polar orbit between Saturn's ring and it's outer atmosphere it will complete 22 weekly obits of Saturn before plunging into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15th via Countdown to Cassini's Grand Finale /... Continue Reading →
Kate M Colby is offering her ebooks out at a bargain orice for a shirt time! Please make sure you support her and if you're not following go and look up her blog. Simon 🙂
Are you coming to the bloggers bash? If not and you want to there's a few tickets left - have a look at Sacha's post to get all the filth! http://sachablack.co.uk/2017/04/22/tick-tock-the-bash-clock-are-you-coming-bloggersbash-bloggersbash/ Simon 🙂
A few pics from ESA little selection - Earth is about to come right between the Sun and Jupiter, some runaway debris from ISS and some spectacular aurora taken from ISS via Week In Images / Highlights / ESA Simon 🙂
The nominations for the bloggers bash are now open! http://sachablack.co.uk/2017/04/17/nominations-for-the-2017-bloggers-bash-awards-are-now-live/ The bloggers bash is not far away and there's loads of categories that need bloggers names against them so get thinking and get nominating! Simon 🙂 P.S. Thanks to Sacha and the committe for all the hard work they're putting into this!
So this week there are as always a few things going on. However, unlike other weeks there's one or two things of importance that I can't say much about now but let's say things might be about to change a bit and who knows where that may lead me? Last week I managed to do... Continue Reading →
In case you didn't know, today is Earth day. A day where we focus on this self supporting spacecraft whizzing through the cosmos that we call home. We need to help this world keep us alive and looking amazing... As usual I like to see things a bit differently. What better way than from Saturn...... Continue Reading →
Hi, this is Sorcerygod. I've received an invite by Simon to join as a contributing writer to Universe of Possibilities. I recognize good writing when I see it, and Simon has it. It's a pleasure for me to be assigned a helping role in his prozine. This virtual space has a lot of pleasures to... Continue Reading →
On my trip home the other week I also got to go to Portsdown hill. From here there's an amazing view all over Portsmouth, the Spinnaker tower is easily visible and I've always loved this view - even as a child. This time I took a few snaps.. They're not great - but they're ok.... Continue Reading →
Today is a public holiday which means one thing (for me at least) no work! If you're one of the hard working people that have to work today, big respect to you! I hope the day is kind to you. 😊 Things are frantic, chaotic and erratic in my life right now. In always every... Continue Reading →
My dog is very hairy and often needs a trim which is done outside. I've noticed how some Great Tits have Ben using this fur for their nest materials. I took these pics of them collecting the fur. The way they reuse stuff puts us to shame. Simon 🙂
What Hubble can see these days is amazing! This is a composite image of Uranus by Voyager 2 and two different observations made by Hubble — one for the ring and one for the auroras. Ever since Voyager 2 beamed home spectacular images of the planets in the 1980s, planet-lovers have been hooked on auroras... Continue Reading →
