Eddington AS MoonWatch Success!
Tada!!! The clouds parted, the rain stopped, and people flocked to the garden at Kendal’s Brewery Arts Centre tonight for the Eddington AS’s November “MoonWatch”!

Here we go again…
After being out of the media spotlight for a few years, that ugly, green-brown rock you see above this text is about to hit the headlines again. In a big way. You see, that ugly looking chunk of stone is actually ALH84001, the most famous meteorite in history. ALH84001 is one of those rare “martian meteorites” – a piece of rock that was blown off Mars by an asteroi

“Space – what a waste of money…!”
How many times have I had that fired at me after I’ve given one of my Outreach talks? I’ve lost count. From now on I’m going to refer people who say things like that to this excellent blog article, which lists some excellent “space spin-offs”… http://onlinesciencedegrees.net/25-everyday-technologies-that-came-from-nasa

Perfect plumes…
I’ve been “into space” for a long time – a LONG time. Over three and a half decades, in fact. So I’m pretty hard to surprise and amaze now. Not hard to impress, not hard to delight, but hard to actually amaze. It’s not often that an image comes back from ‘out there’ that makes me go wide-eyed and slack-jawed with astonishment. The last time that happened was probably when Oppy rolled up to the edge of Victoria Crater and gazed out across it to the other side, that literally choked me up. Today it happened again. The Cassini spaceprobe has taken tens of thousands of images of Saturns, its rings and system of

Waiting for word…
All around the world, planetary scientists and “space geeks” (and, as one of them, I use the term with love and respect!) are waiting anxiously to hear if the Mars Exploration Rover “Spirit” has started to move out of its dustbowl trap. It’s been stuck there for months now, bogged down in talcum-fine powdery sand, going absolutely nowhere. Earlier today commands were sent t