Orbiting Frog

Tomorrow evening, NASA opens the launch window for Artemis II.

Generative AI gets condemned on environmental grounds while people scroll Netflix in bed.

I've had agents working for me for just over a week.

Polynesian navigators crossed the Pacific using the stars.

We went to an asteroid, brought a small piece of it back, and found the keys to life as we know it inside it.

We hear a lot about how low gravity would let you jump higher.

Europa and the other Galilean satellites might be the survivors of multiple generations of moons that formed and were destroyed during Jupiter's violent youth.

The Vera Rubin Observatory's 800,000 nightly alerts mark the beginning of real-time astronomy, fundamentally changing how we discover and study transient cosmic events.

Next Saturday I'm walking barefoot across burning hot coals at 650°C to raise money for Project Possibility.

For years I've been getting emails asking about my old satellite tracking tools for Google Earth.

The Soul Nebula in HRGB The Soul Nebula, also known as Westerhout 5 (W5) amongst other names.

Private space companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic are revolutionizing space exploration with innovations like reusable rockets and ambitious goals for interplanetary travel.

NGC 281 is more fondly known as the Pacman Nebula.

The Iris Nebula is a reflection nebula 1,300 light years away, illuminated by a partially embedded star (SAO 19158) which is 10X the size of our Sun.

I've been enjoying learning Tensorflow, and this awesome Colab lets us invent new creatures and crossbreeds from nothing but code.

The night sky is full of thousands of silhouettes of all many shapes and sizes.

[](https://media.orbitingfrog.com/uploads/wp-migrated/2021/11/elephant-trunk-sho2-2.jpg) Elephant's Trunk Nebula SHO 20 light years long, and 2,400 light…

[](https://media.orbitingfrog.com/uploads/wp-migrated/2021/11/deneb-sadr.jpg) Deneb-Sadr and (some of) the Milky Way in Cygnus.

The North America Nebula (NGC 7000) and neighbouring Pelican Nebula (IC5070 and IC5067) in Cygnus, near Deneb.

[](https://media.orbitingfrog.com/uploads/wp-migrated/2015/03/img7345.jpg) Today's partial Solar eclipse is off to a great start here in Witney, where the…

Another paper for the Milky Way Project.

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Hubot is an open source chatbot created by GitHub.

This was an amazing week.

H₂O might be the most familiar chemical compound on the planet.

[](https://www.mazdarebels.com/en-gb/content/the-astronomer/) I’ve been called a lot of things but ‘rebel’ hasn’t come up too often.

Really pleased to make my Milkman app available for all MWP users :)

[](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 Zooniverse…

[](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…

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 in…

I got into a conversation recently about how some astronomical photos can totally change your whole perspective of yourself and your place in the Universe.…

Executable papers are a cool idea in research [1].

Warning: 400 words of geekery ahead!

Yesterday was the Hack Day at the UK National Astronomy Meeting 2014 in Portsmouth.

Today is the start of the UK National Meeting in Portsmouth.

[](http://www.operationwardiary.org) Working at the Zooniverse means that I get to indulge many of my interests beyond astronomy, like history.

A new Milky Way Project paper was published to the arXiv last week.

New Zooniverse project goes live today and I warn you: it is highly addictive!

[](http://links.orbitingfrog.com) I've added a new section to Orbiting Frog today: Orbiting Links (http://links.orbitingfrog.com).

TED 2014 has just ended here in Vancouver and I have finally now experienced an event I’ve heard a lot about for many years.

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I was lucky enough to visit Norway last week.

[wpvideo jZEU7OC9] This video is a time-lapse of images taken from a geostationary satellite.

[](http://amzn.to/1hY4O17) I've started a page with some links, facts and ideas for teachers, educators and anyone else that wants them. Quite often when I’m…

This was just too awesome!

This week is the BBC's Stargazing Live show: three now-annual nights of live stargazing and astronomy chatter, live from Jodrell Bank.

I recently had the pleasure of visiting Tower Hill School (in Witney) to talk about astronomy, space and science.

[](https://media.orbitingfrog.com/uploads/wp-migrated/2013/12/20131214-233542.jpg) Congratulations China!

[](https://media.orbitingfrog.com/uploads/2026/02/1771788064982-u18vnf.jpg) Just over three years the Zooniverse launched the Milky Way Project (MWP), my…

> Observational studies have shown that the male brain is hardwired to be paid more, occupy more powerful roles and positions, and be more inclined to kill…