Alice in Galaxyland

I must definitely keep up with the news more often. An old friend from Cornwall, who I knew as Bunny but is now also known as Nathaniel Bur...

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I haven't been covering the Simon Singh case very coherently, especially not the most recent post, because I was too busy howling with ...

Sorry, but I really couldn't resist that headline. I am cracking up laughing at the Bad Astronomer's latest post - "Chiropocaly...

I'm still in a state of aaaaaaargh -ness (no, sadly nothing to do with the Castle Argh), but just a very quick entry here to encourage y...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHH!!!! I have no time to write at the moment. The forum accounts and classifying accounts at the zoo have just been ...

Sorry for the recent silence - Earthly events have been demanding my attention, the most random of which included haring off to Manchester t...

I'd been wondering about emission spectra for a while. To summarise it, what happens is this: electrons exist in "orbits" rou...

Whatever you do . . . Where do people get the ideas for things like this? Hat tip: Stellar .

One of the ways in which astronomy (and, in my humble opinion, galaxy astronomy especially) is revoltingly lucky compared to a lot of scien...