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We watched both on Wednesday, May 27 and Saturday, May 30 when it actually happened: the historic launch of Crew Dragon Demo-2, a commercial state-of-the-art aircraft, marking the start of … Continue reading Watching Bob and Doug start a new era of space exploration
Simon’s returned to cosmology, as he always does, on a new level. Binge watching PBS Spacetime and Domain of Science Space Playlist.
This is a model of hyperbolic space (7 triangles around a vertex). It’s an open problem of how far you can keep expanding your structure this way (possibly infinitely far, … Continue reading Hyperbolic space
Simon didn’t want to watch Interstellar (he generally dislikes fiction and often finds it too scary as well), but somehow he did get sucked into the story after his sister … Continue reading Simon explaining Interstellar
We are very grateful to brother Robert and his awesome colleagues from the Urania observatory for tonight’s adventure. We saw Jupiter and its four main moons, Saturn and Venus. And … Continue reading Summer Night Sky Watching
Looking at the Moon and the Orion nebula from a roof top together with a true friend The telescopes were brought to the panorama floor of the museum “het MAS” … Continue reading Stardust
On Saturday Simon had his second astronomy workshop at the local observatory. The pages below is “homework”. He wasn’t particularly enthusiastic doing it but found tasks 4, 5 and 8 intriguing … Continue reading Astronomy Classes
On Saturday Simon started his monthly classes at Urania, the local observatory.
Tonight a little miracle happened. We have finally managed to see Saturn! And Mars! All thanks to a very special man, Robert Matheus of the Antwerp observatory Urania. Robert has … Continue reading Bigger than Saturn
Geeks out of the box 