Why Quarks'n'quasars? Quarks - Little wonders that are the building blocks of us, of everything we know, of the screen you're looking at and the picture on it. They're everywhere, so familiar and yet so unknown to us. Quasars are the other end of the known unknown spectrum. Something so stupendously powerful, deadly, crushingly dense, totally alien to anything we know, but look up the Crab Nebula (on Google - I don't have any pictures of it yet) which has one spinning at its core, and you'll see that it is the core of something very beautiful. For the last 4 years I have been on a journey (i.e doing an OU Degree) that has seen me embrace science in both its more traditional forms Chemistry, Physics, Biology, etc, and in to some people the less familiar forms which are my particular interests, Geoscience and Astronomy. This is a back-dated, belated account of my adventures so far, and an ongoing account of my adventures to come.
The picture above is of the nebulosity in the area of the sky commonly referred to as Orions Belt (two of the belt stars can be seen - the third is out of shot). There are 4 nebulas in shot - From left to right the Flame Nebula, the Horse Head Nebula, the Running Man Nebula, and (a little tiny bit of) the Orion Nebula. The image was taken at the Rollright Stones in the Cotswolds in January 2012.
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