Happy New Year! And happy new decade! 2020 could well be an important year for manned space flight. It might be the year that America finally puts humans back into space on American spacecraft. If this happens it will be on spacecraft designed and built by commercial companies rather than NASA. . The landing of… Continue reading Happy New Year 2020
Author: Steve Hurley
Hi I am Steve Hurley I have a PhD in astronomy and live near Manchester in the North West of England. My blog ( http://thesciencegeek.org) is a fairly lightweight blog about various scientific topics, but primarily astronomy. It is written in a style that it is easily understandable to the non scientist.
Publications
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Free e-book on Venus and how to Terraform it
Merry Christmas! With Christmas coming up I’d like to give a free gift to all my readers. My e-book 'Venus and how to Terraform it' will be available free in the Kindle bookstore for five days from today (19 December 2019). To get your FREE copy please click on the link below . Get free… Continue reading Free e-book on Venus and how to Terraform it
The evenings are drawing out already
Although there is still a week to go until the December solstice, the evenings are already starting to draw out. I have decided to re-blog an edited version of my 2015 post on this topic. ------------------------------ As I complete this post, it's completely dark outside and it's only 5 o'clock in the afternoon; most people… Continue reading The evenings are drawing out already
The discovery of dark energy
In this post I talk about the unexpected finding made in the late 1990’s that the rate of expansion of the Universe is increasing due to dark energy. This was totally unexpected and won its discoverers the Nobel prize for physics. (This article is one my series on cosmology - the study of the origin… Continue reading The discovery of dark energy
Daylight Saving Time
As mentioned in my previous post, in the early hours of Sunday 27 October the clocks go back an hour throughout the European Union and daylight saving time comes to an end. Although many Europeans will welcome the extra hour in bed on the night of 26/27 October, I suspect that a lot of people… Continue reading Daylight Saving Time
