Celebrating International Women’s Day

On April 8, 2010, STS-131 mission specialists Stephanie Wilson of NASA, Naoko Yamazaki of JAXA, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger of NASA, and Expedition 23 flight engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson (top left) work at the robotics workstation on the International Space Station, in support of transfer operations using the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm . via NASA http://ift.tt/21Wd4c1

What to change and what to keep

I am about to do worldbuilding for the version of Sweden that will be the setting  for at least two series. It will involve a lot of research. From history to folklore to administration. Not to mention deciding how much history changes. Do I keep everything and just adds  magic? Or do I keep somethings […]

Hubble and a Stellar Fingerprint

Showcased at the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image is an emission-line star known as IRAS 12196-6300, located just under 2,300 light-years from Earth. via NASA http://ift.tt/1VVtVog

And… done.

After 3 months of revising, I have sent in the revised manuscript to Laura Anne.  Woot. In the end, I added over 10 000 words. It isn’t perfect, but it is much better than it was before. Still some rough spots, though. Now I am going to clean and read lots of books. Have a nice […]

One-Year Crew Returns to Earth

The Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 (Kazakh time). via NASA http://ift.tt/1Lw1RaL

Last Sunrise From a Year in Space

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly shared a series of five sunrise photographs on Tuesday, March 1, 2016, as he prepared to depart the space station and return to Earth aboard a Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft. Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov are scheduled to undock their Soyuz at 8:02 p.m. EST and land at […]

Different Worlds

Although Tethys and Janus both orbit Saturn and are both made of more or less the same materials, they are very different worlds. via NASA http://ift.tt/1RftqBR