“So Where Were They From?”
The Green Children of Woolpit, Part 2
Top Award For Astronomy Picture of the Day Website
Developed in the early days of the internet the aim was to post a daily astronomical image along with a brief, easily understood explanation.
Epsilon Boötis, Clyde Tombaugh, Black Knight and STS-88
Image: Single and 2-stage Black Knight launchers at Woomera, Australia Find out more in Duncan Lunan’s article
Epsilon Boötis Revisited, Part 2
“Are any of the Stonehenge Galactic alignments repeated at the Old Kingdom Egyptian pyramids?”
The Sky Above You – June 2022
Before dawn will be the best time to see the Tau Herculid shower from Comet Schwassman-Wachman 3, on the night of May 31st – June 1st, although in Scotland, especially in the far north, the sky will probably be too bright to see many.
EPSILON BOÖTIS REVISITED
” What looks more likely is that there was something in the centre of Stonehenge I, which was gone by the building of Stonehenge II and III. “
Alan C. Evans, 1941 – 2021
“Alan had an extraordinary intuitive grasp of spatial relationships, and could just look at a plan of an ancient site, or the relative placing of two or more on the globe, and tell what the significance was.”
Ed Buckley (1940-2021)
Ed Buckley with Scorpius mural, ASTRA rooms, Hamilton. 1971, photo by David Adams
The Fermi Paradox, Part 3
Interstellar space probe launches, ‘Man & the Stars’ Plate 11, Duncan Lunan continues his exploration of the scenarios for other space faring cultures
The Fermi Paradox, Part 2
“In 1974 Prof. Gerard O’Neill published his proposals for large free-flying settlements in space, following earlier suggestions by Tsiolkovsky, Bernal and others.”
