The features on that "jagged slice" mosaic are still a great sight though. A full disc I imagine would have looked absolutely amazing. I hope you ge...

Yes absolutely. Spoiler alert but I enjoyed that video with its trendy streetwise presentation. Seeing it again on Wednesday. Regards to the soun...

first episode of Carl Sagan's COsmos just started on BBC4...

Andy, do lower your expectations! It all depends on how much the flaws affect your enjoyment of everything else it delivers as this is the type of fi...

Just a thought, perhaps we can rename this thread "Hollywood Astronomy" or something like that, so we can make it a dedicated astronomy movie thread? ...

I also saw this film, yesterday. I tried hard not to have too high expectations for the film but I failed miserably. With director Nolan's incredibl...

Wow. Now we detect see planets forming on other stars, not just finding planets. I am puzzled with the physics of it all though. I see a whole di...

Tej, by a spooky coincidence, 2 minutes ago I was checking my diary for the dates of the Moons course Which I signed up to a while ago! I might do th...

A triple of free returning and new astronomy related courses coming up on Futurelearn: In the night Sky: Orion (5th Jan) The DIscovery of the Higgs ...

Well I was hoping for more visitors but not that kind! Just to rub it in, they are most likely auto bots, not even human visitors, lol. They just sc...

Yes, interesting graph and its good to see that the ratio between unsuccessful and successful launches have overall decreased suggesting that they hav...

Ah brilliant, well explained, Mike. You certainly did think it through. I feel like Marty Mcfly "you're not thinking fourth dimensionally"...Heavy, ...

...but that still doesn't explain the cloud shadows on the rainbow itself. Its all fine with the light refracting and bouncing off different angles f...

I think he must have attended the same school of speech as George Bush. It hurts to see all those experiments gone up in smoke and I feel for the bof...

But why ride a motorcycle through Rome when talking about the alignment of the planets that enabled the Voyager missions? Why even mention Cepheid var...