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
Tag: Astronomy
Astronomy Items
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
Jim Peebles winner of the Noble Prize 2019
I was interested to hear that Jim Peebles, at the age of 84, has won a half share of the 2019 Noble Prize for physics for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology. Jim Peebles (1935-) Image from Wikimedia commons In the early 1960s Peebles and his colleague Robert Dicke had predicted the existence of the microwave… Continue reading Jim Peebles winner of the Noble Prize 2019
The September equinox
In 2019 September 23 is the date of the September equinox and is also the first day of autumn (or the first day of spring if you're one of my readers in the Southern Hemisphere). In this post I’ll talk about the equinoxes and discus the commonly held view that they are the two days in… Continue reading The September equinox
