Very not surprised. (You get compensated if the delay is 30 min or more.)

Obviously the Govt would prefer to “fund” HE through loans because in principle they get it back. Even that’s dropped. But it quite clearly doesn’t do the job and is problematic for more expensive lab-based courses. It’s a no-brainer: that dark green area needs to rapidly expand.

Sometimes when doing breakfast I am reminded of an Australian beer. Aussies supposedly wouldn’t give two hoots for anything else

As someone who takes FUV movies of Jupiter’s auroras like these, I have to disagree a little bit! 🙂

We made John Craven's Newsround, which has made my day!

Ah, England, just as you get used to the lovely warm weather, look who shows up to the party

Love this gorgeous picture of Mars taken by Hubble last December and released as part of the #Hubble35 celebrations.

Read the info about the image and the visible features here:

science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble...

From 2009 with Hubble… what surprised me was how different the two sets of auroras looked.

We caught this double light show of the north and south auroras with Hubble in 2009. The difference between the hemispheres was surprising!

Now onto the shuttle!

I have just installed STIS!

(This is the instrument I use to take pics of Jupiter’s auroras)

#nerdmas

Here’s a clue 🙂

The start of my Christmas project…

Trying to take a picture of the Apollo 11 capsule but some damn fool keeps getting in the way…

An #introduction for new followers.. I study the auroras (northern lights) of the outer planets using e.g. the Hubble Space Telescope, taking pictures like this: