Christmas is almost upon us. Give yourself an early Christmas present, without it costing you a penny, by downloading my e-books for free during the first five days of December! "Is Anyone Out There?" is about the likelihood of there being extraterrestrial intelligent life. It is based on a number of posts from my blog. For readers based… Continue reading A Christmas gift from The Science Geek
Category: Moon
Lunar Eclipse 28 September 2015
On 28 September 2015 there will be an total eclipse of the Moon, which will be viewable from many areas of the world. It will be an interesting sight and worth getting up at an unsociable hour to see it, especially since there won't be another total lunar eclipse until 2018. The Moon during a recent… Continue reading Lunar Eclipse 28 September 2015
20 July 1969 The First Men on the Moon
It has been a very exciting week for space exploration with the pictures sent from New Horizons as it flew past Pluto on Tuesday. Monday next week (20-th July) marks the 46-th anniversary of the first landing on men on the Moon, which was one of the iconic events of the last century. To celebrate this anniversary… Continue reading 20 July 1969 The First Men on the Moon
Solar Eclipse 20 March
Some of us living in the Northern Hemisphere will be able to view a solar eclipse on Friday 20 March 2015. Most people will only see a partial eclipse, but some lucky people living in a particular region will experience a total eclipse. When this happens the Sun is completely obscured and it goes dark during the period… Continue reading Solar Eclipse 20 March
The Moon e-booklet
Best wishes to all my readers and followers, I hope you enjoyed reading my previous post on dark matter, which is part of my series on cosmology, the study of the origin an evolution of the Universe as a whole. As you may recall in May/Jun last year I wrote series of 5 closely linked posts on the Moon.… Continue reading The Moon e-booklet
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