Spooky beach

15 Sep 20197 Sep 2019

All powerful sun, lighting up a solar system...and here I stand, under a tiny cloud, as I apparently must, not getting its full blast in my face. Not that I…

Remember a piece of history

12 Sep 20194 Sep 2019

The very first photograph of a solar eclipse: From the source:  Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski made the first solar eclipse photograph on July 28, 1851, also using the daguerrotype process,…

Photographing the sunset

7 Sep 20195 Aug 2019

There are moments you treasure for the rest of your life. When I sat there the other day, at that little place I once facetiously called the least spectacular beach…

Who says there’s “fun” in physics?

3 Sep 201925 Aug 2019

Making fun of physics is difficult. Sure, you can go Sitcom-style and make fun of people, the scientists. But making fun of science itself? What's the Sheldon Cooper of actual…

The balance of forces

29 Aug 201927 Aug 2019

A star. Our star. The Sun. Something pushing inwards, something pushing outwards. The balance between those two things is such that the Sun looks like (or close to) this to…

Recent tectonics

15 Aug 201917 Aug 2019

The fault line in this image was created "Less than 10 million years ago." In other words, and as the source claims, rather "recent"-ly. Let me write that again: The…

Look what’s hiding there!

19 May 20199 May 2019

I have no idea what that foreground object really is - and I'm the one who should know. I work at the place which owns the thing.... © 2019 Alexander…

Can’t wait!

7 Apr 201929 Mar 2019

Man, I'll probably bore you with this already, going on, as I am, about Earth's nutation and what that does to the weather… Enough with the snow already. Our days…

I’m going to bed now

31 Mar 2019

It's part of my daily routine. If I'm at home and the weather permits it, I'm on my way outside to find stories. Sometimes, these stories can be quite elaborate,…