I finished the line edits on Wednesday, after deciding to take the rest of the week off from dayjob after mum was rushed to the ER on Tuesday night. ( She wasn’t admitted, but I felt she shouldn’t be alone) After taking Thursday off from writing, I decided to get back to Vanished. So far […]
The NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) 21 mission began on July 21, 2016, as an international crew of aquanauts splashed down to the undersea Aquarius Reef Base, 62 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. The NEEMO 21 crew will perform research both inside and outside the habitat during a 16-day simulated space […]
This view of a massive cluster of galaxies unveils a very cluttered-looking universe filled with galaxies near and far. Some are distorted like a funhouse mirror through a “space warp” phenomenon first predicted by Einstein a century ago. via NASA http://ift.tt/2ajiTfA
I thought I would never reach this stage but the line edits are done. Woot. Which means I need to send all the e-mails on Monday. For the rest of the week I am going to read all the books on my Kindle and enjoy the weather. I hope you have a nice weekend!
On July 20, 1976, at 8:12 a.m. EDT, NASA received the signal that the Viking Lander 1 successfully reached the Martian surface. This major milestone represented the first time the United States successfully landed a vehicle on the surface of Mars, collecting an overwhelming amount of data that would soon be used in future NASA […]
Sea ice across the Arctic Ocean is shrinking to below-average levels this summer. NASA’s Operation IceBridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, just completed its first flights studying the aquamarine pools of melt water on the ice surface that may be accelerating the overall sea ice retreat. via NASA http://ift.tt/29RigKX
Saturn’s main rings, along with its and moons, are much brighter than most stars. via NASA http://ift.tt/29IeWgg
Today I decided to walk Montelius Väg, which is a walking path, maybe 1. km long that runs along the sea from Mariatorget to Slussen. The buildings closest to it is from 1800s. Before 1930s most of Södermalm looked like this. So have a glimpse of a past Stockholm.
This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), shows a starburst galaxy named MCG+07-33-027. This galaxy lies some 300 million light-years away from us, and is currently experiencing an extraordinarily high rate of star formation — a starburst. via NASA http://ift.tt/29JrCFz
Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams of NASA captured photographs of western Cuba and the Gulf of Batabanó as the International Space Station flew overhead. Williams shared this composite image on social media, writing, “Wow! Look at how the navy blue contrasts with the aqua, Gulf of Batabano Cuba.” via NASA http://ift.tt/29SEGs9