“Ted Nield is a doctor of geology and editor of the journal Geoscience. Written from that perspective, his book is an excellent introduction to meteoritics (the science of meteorites and impacts) as well as to the ongoing dynamic processes which shape the Earth.”
On 21st of May 1908 the film Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde premiered in Chicago.
Fresh southerly winds this morning, becoming lighter this afternoon. Maximum temperature 14 °C.
Exhibiting in the windows of the Northlight Gallery, Stromness is work by Giuliana Criscuolo. The exhibition is on till 1st June.
Stromness harbour with the Northlink ferry
An artist’s impression of quasar J0313-1806 showing the supermassive black hole and the extremely high velocity wind. The quasar, seen just 670 million years after the Big Bang, is 1000 times more luminous than the Milky Way, and is powered by the earliest known supermassive black hole, which weighs in at more than 1.6 billion times the mass of the Sun. Image credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva
What’s in a kiss? Perhaps more than you realise
Southwesterly winds freshening later. Maximum temperature 14 °C.
This short easy walk takes you along the beautiful shoreline of Stromness.
There are graves in St Olaf’s Cemetery, Kirkwall, of Norwegians who died in World War Two fighting for the independence of Norway which had been invaded by Nazi Germany.
