Smeddum's Hotpotch — A daily soup of world news
Welcome to Smeddum's Hotpotch -On sick leave -Glasgow poet and mental health activist's daily journey into the marvels of the internet with an eye to magical realism and the most cutting edge changes in the major spheres of human activity.
SpaceX’s launch of NASA’s exoplanet-hunting TESS satellite may have been delayed, but that’s not stopping scientists from using the hardware they already have to make new, otherwo…
Source: Astronomers discovery trio of gas giant planets orbiting distant stars – BGR
Astrophysicists have produced a 3D map of 4,000 galaxies at a time when our universe was in its infancy.
Source: 4,000 of the earliest galaxies in our universe mapped in 3D | CBC News
Source: A Changing Landscape at Ceres
With the increasingly steady stream of Mars-related news over the past couple of years it can be easy to forget that NASA has had high-tech hardware rolling around on the planet’s surface for…
Source: NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has been on the Red Planet for 2,000 days – BGR
The Curiosity rover has sent back some beautiful new images of the foothills of Mount Sharp in Gale crater on Mars.
Source: Stunning new Mars images, from Curiosity | Space | EarthSky
