The Call of Troythulu

A Partial Eclipse Over Manila Bay A Close Pass of Saturn’s Moon Dione A Partial Solar Eclipse over Texas SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Launches to the Space Station All the Water on Europa Scorpius in Red and Blue At the Edge of NGC 891 Caturday’s Astronomy Pix is a weekly installment, published each weekend be

So far so good, this is another consecutive week when I’ve found time to get off my duff and post an installment in this series. My time management skills are improving… For those with a phobia of spiders, listen up: A paper’s been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of

This is a Suthidruu warrior acolyte, with the three differing sorts of tentacular limbs. It’s not a very good depiction in my view, and dates from several years ago. I’m working on a much better full set of images of this species, including their ceremonial vestments, armour, everyday workdress and

A call for the study of religions as natural phenomena and the responsible teaching of the truth, all of it, of all religions, to children, even the dirty little secrets their own faith’s elders may not want them to know… Dennett also takes on The Purpose-Driven Life, disputing its claim that, to be