astronomy

Our wonderful neighborhood

By tigtog on 2006-10-17 • ( 5 )

click on picture for larger image at APOD As regular readers know, I adore the Astronomy Picture of the Day site, and I have it as the homepage of my browser so I see every picture. This was yesterday’s, a… Read More ›

Earthlights

By tigtog on 2006-10-01

This is a classic composite picture which NASA first published in 2002, and which they’ve just put up again at Astronomy Picture of the Day. Click on the link for a higher resolution image, resize your browser window as large… Read More ›

Pluto the not quite a Planet

By tigtog on 2006-08-28 • ( 1 )

Lovely graphic today at one of my favourite sites (it’s my browser’s homepage), Astronomy Picture of the Day, which I’ll put up just because it gives such a clear idea of the proportions of the planets and other orbiting bodies making up our Solar System.