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Saturn’s Eyes

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

One of my favourite childhood movies was “Flight of the Navigator” as it truly arrested my imagination at the time. I remember after watching it for the first time as a kid how I wished Max would come fetch me and whiz me around the galaxy. Even today as I approach my 26th birthday […]

Saturn’s Eclipse

Friday, October 20th, 2006

Saturn, named after the Roman god of agriculture, is arguably one of the most mysterious planets in our solar system having had astronomers marvel at its beauty for centuries. The planet’s spectacular set of rings are even visible with a small telescope. I remember the first night I tried out mine and how I […]

A bit of SALT

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

Last night I attended a public lecture by Prof. Eric Wilcots from University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA held at the Johannesburg Planetarium. The lecture was titled “Seasoning the Universe with a little bit of SALT” in which he spoke about the new Southern African Large Telescope located in the Karoo near Sutherland. The telescope cost […]

Shuttle Launch

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

From a very young age space arrests my imagination and I have always wanted to be an explorer of its enigmatic and infinite mysteries. For a long time I aspired to become an astronaut until I realized that today it seems like being thrown in the air within nothing but a big steel bucket […]