Back to space this week for Because It’s Friday. Over the 32 years in space the NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken over 1.5m observations. Someone has to choose the best. Watch Dr Ken Carpenter get excited over this amazing image of the Carina Nebula. The image at the top …
Because It’s Friday – Something a bit different this week
I often mention the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in posts – it is part of the UK’s intelligence service and is involved in cyber security. Their site in Cheltenham is well known for its distinctive “doughnut” shaped building. I took the photo above, last week whilst walking out near …
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Because It’s Friday – Something from 11 billion years ago
The Hubble telescope captured three images of a supernova exploding – this was strange as they are three separate moments of the explosion, in the same frame thanks to gravity lensing as described by Einstein. This explosion happened 11 billion years ago – it’s time travel again. Hubble Captures 3 …
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Because It’s Friday – an impossible thing
If I had told you in the spring that we would have a new King and three Prime Ministers in a period of less than two months – you would have thought that improbable if not impossible. Here is something else that is supposed to be impossible, according to a …
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Because It’s Friday – back to space this week
The reason for the “Because It’s Friday” project was to lighten the content of this blog as my stories can be a stream of bad news. With the cyber security news this week of loss of privacy, the insider threat, our cars being vulnerable, threat actors hitting out at home …
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