KTHXBYE

Although I haven't been writing a great deal recently, the blagosphere certainly hasn't lessened in any way its ceaseless attempts to bring the newest and strangest things to the attention of those who care to read the myriad sources of information that now exist. In …

MNM: Moonbabies

Despite English not being their first language, Sweden's Moonbabies have managed to find an onomatopeaic name and are going places with it. Perhaps the Moon is

MNM: Venice Is Sinking

Success! Now that I've reduced Monday's New Music to

May the 25th be with you

I feel quite disappointed that I can't celebrate tomorrow properly. Star Wars came out a few years before I was born and thanks to a relatively sci-fi free house (with the exception of Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind) I didn't really get into Star Wars properly until …

Happenings In The Sky

A quick round up of things that have been going on it what has been a pretty busy week or so for events in the sky

Venus-Moon Conjunction

This was the more obvious of the two big events this week and plenty of people around the world saw this beautiful sight in the …

A Sky of Delights

It's been a pretty good couple of days in the skies. Everything kicked off yesterday evening when, out of the twilight, came the magnificent sight of the planet Venus and our Moon separated by just over a degree in the sky. We had a full Society session to observe this …

Crescent Moon Watch

Having been thwarted last night by cloud lurking on the horizon I was determined this evening to catch sight of an early crescent Moon. After a day of intermittent shower and sunshine the evening turned cooler, a rising wind coming in to blow out the few remaining …

I am waiting for this moment

One of my favourite "discoveries" from this year's Coachella, which I now seem to have seen almost in full thanks to the wonders of YouTube and the AT&T live webcast that beamed images of the festival in the desert throughout the weekend, is the Los Angeles fourpiece …

I Dream of Spaceships #1

Made with only the greatest respect for the master, xkcd.

Read all about supernova SN 2006gy and why the star Eta Carina, 7,500 light years away, might be about to follow its example in this article from NASA's Chandra mission.

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Spend each night in your arms

Yes, I realise that I'm well behind on both Monday's New Music and the Friday Download Review but you'll have to excuse me as the dreaded exam season is upon us so I'm trying to keep distractions to a minimum. That doesn't mean I have stopped listening to music: I'm …