wigton physics

An amazing feature at Jodrell Bank was the display of clocks in the café. The clock for Venus goes backwards because it rotates the wrong w...

We went to Jodrell Bank near Manchester on Saturday. It was one of my early blog posts and it has been 4 years since we went. I'd nev...

We found a marvellous NASA website that gives you a different picture of space every day and explains it. Looks like a good way to learn new...

It has taken me years to recognise this phenomenon but Wikipedia tells me that hexagonal ice crystals in high cirrus cloud refract the li...

I never thought I'd be "bigging up" Cambridge University AND Bill Gates, and in the same sentence. Anyway, the Natural Scien...

These photographs are taken at the Cow Green reservoir, high in the Pennines in Upper Teesdale. This first picture is taken in normal light...

 I set my telescope up to project an image of the Sun onto a piece of paper. There are about half a dozen sunspots visible at the moment. Th...