June 2013

Richard Matheson in 2008

The American writer Richard Matheson died last Sunday after a long illness. Richard Burton Matheson was born on February 20, 1926 in Allendale, New Jersey. As a writer he was famous for novels such as “I Am Legend”, as a screenwriter for the movie “Duel” and many adaptations for TV show episodes.

Doctor Who - The Android Invasion

“The Android Invasion” is an adventure of the thirteenth season of “Doctor Who” classic series, which aired in 1975 featuring the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith. It follows “Pyramids of Mars” and it’s a four parts adventure written by Terry Nation and directed by Barry Letts.

Combined image of the Sun and the Moon (Image NASA/SDO/LRO/GSFC)

Two or three times every year, the NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft observes the Moon passing in front of the Sun and in that case it becomes a black disk. This happened for example on October 7, 2010. No big deal, at least until Scott Wiessinger, who works with images of that probe, and Ernie Wright, who works with the images of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) space probe, combined with extreme precision the right images of the two probes to create an image of an eclipse never seen before.