Science is hard

In a public lecture in Prague today, Martin Rees made the oft-repeated statement that biology is far more complicated than astronomy. A frog is much more complex than a star or a galaxy.

If that's so, I'd like to hire a biologist and see how they get on. :D

What our Solar System would look like if the Sun was replaced withother stars.

What our Solar System would look like if the Sun was replaced with other stars.

Accompanying article here.
Caution : this article is apparently so titillating* that Sky have blocked access to my blog (but not through links to individual posts, go figure).

* It isn't. The closest thing this post has to a sexual reference, let alone hardcore pornography, is a picture of a vacuum cleaner. If you classify this as pornographic I suggest you keep it to yourself.

Created, as always, in Blender.

[I normally use this blog to provide shorter summaries of longer articles, but in this case it's just a link, since the original article isn't particularly long]