Sunset on Mars, or is it?
No, it's sunset during the big Queensland bushfires back in September. But it did stringly remind me of this Martian Sunset.

More Evidence of Life on Mars
This mornings Australian had an article on more evidence of life existing on MArs, at least in the past. Re-examination of the Martian meteorite ALH84001 by the McKay goup suggests that the magnetite grains found in the meteorite really are of biogenic origin. The abstract of the paper is

Don't Know Whether to Laugh or Cry
From a letter to the Adelaide Advertiser of Friday, November 27."Before I went to the Antarctic Peninsula in January 2000 there was great public concern about the hole in the ozone layer growing like a mushroom, [...] Ukrainian scientists who have monitored the hole for 9 years have found little change if any in that time. So much for the scare mongers. "Umm, that would be because we spent over 20 years hammering out international treaties to stop production and release of CFC's

Southern Skywatch December 2009 edition is now up!
North-eastern horizon as seen from southern Australia around 10:00 pm local daylight saving time on December 1. Northern Australia will see similar views at around 9:00 pm local standard time. The Moon is poised to cover some of the stars in the Pleiades cluster.The December edition of

Enceladus's plumes in 3D
The plumes of Enceladus as a red-cyan 3D anaglyph. You will need red-cyan glasses to see it in 3D. Original image credit NASA / JPL / SSI /. (click to embiggen)Over at the Planetary Society blog Emily has been posting astounding images from the lat