wigton physics

These two pictures were taken a few seconds apart. The one above is what I could see with my eye. The shutter was open for a fra...

This data on a wi-fi box had me looking up the frequencies. FM radio is 88 to 108MHz so these are much higher frequencies. Infra...

  Vega is well known for being a bright star so I was wondering why. It turns out that it is very close at only 25 light years which explain...

Here are a couple of sunspots from last week. I've been looking into how they form. They are colder patches formed because c...

There was always a lot of talk round here about a rumour that the amount of carbon put into the foundations of a turbine release...

  Last month the constellation Bootes was prominent in the western sky after sunset. I've coloured it in the photograph. The circled sta...

 I had thought that we stored excess electrical energy in this country by using pumped storage but it seems that we are now heading towards ...