· News
A New Paper All About #yellowballs
Another paper for the Milky Way Project. The Yellowballs began on the very first day of the Milky Way Project when a user asked me 'what is this?' and I wasn'tâ¦
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Thoughts on space, technology, and everything in between.
· Fun
A Tour: From You to the Largest Structure in the Universe
Line 1. Letâs start with 'typical' humans. The average human adult male is 1.75 metres tall - that's 3.83 cubits or 5.74 feet. The average female is 1.62â¦
#Earth
#Galaxies
#Humans
#Scale
#Size
#Solar System
#space
#sun
#The Moon
· .Astronomy
An Open Chatbot for Astronomy: @botastro
Hubot is an open source chatbot created by GitHub. It's used by various companies, groups, and other techie types, to control systems, gather information, andâ¦
#APOD
#dotastro
#Galaxy Zoo
#github
#hubot
· News
Going the Distance: Philae and Taliesin
This was an amazing week. On Wednesday the Rosetta spacecraft launched the tiny Philae lander on a 10km journey to the surface of a comet: a mountain-sizedâ¦
#Children in Need
#Philae
#Rosetta
#Taliesin
· Fun
Electrolysis of Water: with Pencils and a 9V Battery
HâO might be the most familiar chemical compound on the planet. Many people know that water is HâO, but most wouldn't think about what that means in a chemicalâ¦
#Electrolysis
#Experiment
#Hydrogen
#Kitchen
#Oxygen
#PEncils
#water
· News
Combining Your Clicks with Milkman
Really pleased to make my Milkman app available for all MWP users :)
· Fun
Mazda Makes My Year by Calling Me a 'Rebel'
[](https://www.mazdarebels.com/en-gb/content/the-astronomer/) Iâve been called a lot of things but ârebelâ hasnât come up too often. Not that I mind. As partâ¦
#grant
#Mazda
#Mazda Rebels
#rebel
#video
#Zooniverse
· Uncategorized
A Daily Dose of Zooniverse
[](http://daily.zooniverse.org) 'Something awesome from the Zooniverse every day' was the tagline that we came up with, almost a year ago, for a new Zooniverseâ¦
#blogging
#citizen science
#Daily
#RSS
#Zooniverse
· News
The Zooniverse (and Me!) in Wired UK this Month
[](https://media.orbitingfrog.com/uploads/wp-migrated/2014/09/screenshot-2014-09-04-10-33-03.png) This Month's edition of Wired (UK) includes a feature…
#citizen science
#Corwdsourcing
#EyeWire
#PEEK
#Press
#Wired
· .Astronomy
Coding Comes to the National Astronomy Meeting 2014
The latest issue of Astronomy & Geophysics includes an article by your truly about the GitHub/.Astronomy Hack Day at the UK's National Astronomy Meeting inâ¦
#dotastro
#Hack Day
#NAM
#UK
