As if black holes weren't mysterious enough, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found an unexpected thin disk of material furiously whirling around a supermassive black hole at the heart of the magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 3147, located 130 million light-years away. The conundrum is that the disk shouldn't be there, based on current... Continue Reading →
Yesterday NASA completed a successful test of the abort system of the Orion spacecraft, this is just one headline in a whole list of announcements in space exploration. Whether it's Space X, NASA or Blue Origin someone, somewhere is heading back to the Moon with a view to getting to Mars. https://youtu.be/4rfsDMGplZU But why?Many say... Continue Reading →
The Beginning of Infinite Hi there bloggies! I'm still here I promise...I have to say I was hoping that I would get a little more of a run up with the new look blog but things have conspired to keep me to busy to update the blog. For those of you that that don't already... Continue Reading →
I've often portrayed this universe as so immense, humanity so small.Insignificant.So what's the point?If we're so small and the universe so big why do we struggle to achieve and create?Just remember... Solar Eclipse - No credit claimed on Image - Credit NASA Even a world as insignificant as the Moon can block out the mighty... Continue Reading →
The Beginning of Infinite Hi there bloggies! I'm back!For those of you that weren't about last week I'll just update you with a few things. Firstly this is not Planet Simon anymore - the name of the blog has changed to Beyond the Infinite and as I explained it's been a long time coming. My... Continue Reading →
This is my entry for June's Blog Battle - the theme or word for this month is Corona. Andit stopped for a moment, the mid morning sun sun forcing him to take off his jacket and tie it round his waist. Even with the forest as some shelter the heat would soon become too much... Continue Reading →
Only a few days ago I posted that I had changed my blog identity and that I'm going to be working on it as a brand and I have a number of ideas around this. You can see the post here: Planet Simon rebranded to Beyond the InfiniteBut what does this mean? What is a... Continue Reading →
In 2001 a Space Odyssey Dave Bowman leaves the spaceship Discovery and enters the Monolith star gate. This chapter of the book is called Beyond the Infinite. That's the name that I chose to re-name this blog to - ditching the old name of Planet Simon and creating a whole new identity for this blog.... Continue Reading →
Planet Simon - The end and a New Beginning Hi there bloggies! I'm back!Those of you that are regular bloggies will have known that I've not been about for a couple of weeks. There's a few reasons for this most of which is that I've been doing stuff and secondly I've been working out what... Continue Reading →
One of the things I've come to realise is that I will not be an astronaut, I will not walk on the Moon and I will not walk on Mars. I'm too old and to be brutally honest to myself I would cost to much to launch! I was ind of born a few generations... Continue Reading →
Planet Simon - Me and the World (The saga continues) Hi there bloggies! Regular bloggies to Planet Simon would have noticed something - nothing much. At least from Planet Simon. I made up for it slightly later in the week with my Blog Battle Story - more on that later.For this bit I'm kind of... Continue Reading →
This is my entry for May's Blog Battle - the theme or word for this month is Airtight. There was no light, just the darkness of the space around him. The only sensation that Mitchell knew was his breath. In... out... in... out. Thank God I'm breathing his mind started coming around. Then there were... Continue Reading →
