The International Year of Astronomy is almost over. And so is the first year of writing about my (mostly) astronomical adventures on this website. Today it was exactly a year ago since this site was born (i.e. visible for the rest of the world) and since I kept a calendar page on it, it’s easy […]
Galaxy Zoo, the online citizen astronomy project (on which I discovered Hanny’s Voorwerp), already had two sister projects recently starting: Galaxy Zoo Mergers and Supernovae Zoo. So now the oil spill of knowledge and fun grew so big it needed a new home: The Zooniverse. As often called ‘ambassador’ for (citizen) science and Galaxy […]
My recent visit to ASTRON with a bunch of Galaxy Zoo people was mentioned in their news magazine, which appears twice a year. And you can now easily share that news too. Astron News is a colourful magazine about recent findings and everything else ASTRON has been up to the past six months. You can […]
OK – I was wrong. When I wrote about the ‘party for singles’ organised by the people I rent my flat from, I was sceptical to say the least. And when the guy picking me up showed up at my house more than half an hour too early, I wasn’t really impressed by their […]
If you’re ‘following’ me here since last year, you’ve already heard of our Saint Nicholas tradition, as I published a photo of me and my cousin Valesca back then. I love this time of year. So we did it again. It was Valesca’s second and she needed a little more time to get used to […]
