alokjha:
Goodness. Jaw-dropping new images from NASA #NewHorizons probe #space #astronomy #PlutoFlyby (pic via @NASA)
alokjha:
The very first close-up of #Pluto from @NASA #NewHorizons. Taken from around 500,000 miles from the surface, an hour and a half before closest approach. You can see features a mile across and mountains (made of ice) that are more than 2 miles high. Import
alokjha:
Breathtaking image of Charon and #Pluto, taken by @NASA #NewHorizons taken July 8. Only 5 days to flyby http://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-and-charon-new-horizons-dynamic-duo/
alokjha:
This is how Pluto now looks to the @NASA #NewHorizons probe. The closest ever pic of the frozen dwarf planet. Beautiful isn't it?
alokjha:
To celebrate US Independence Day, the American ambassador to the UK set up a rather lovely pop-up diner in the back garden to his Regents Park home in London. It was an impressive back garden. #j4winfield
alokjha:
One of the barrel #jellyfish that washed up near Poole Harbour. This fellow featured in my @itvnews report about the bloom in these animals seen in recent weeks. Watch the report here: https://www.facebook.com/alokjha/videos/838175722943182/ #photoof
alokjha:
Like, OMG. Nothing beats a t-shirt based on the periodic table. #chemistry #radiation #me #photooftheday #instagood
alokjha:
So, you check into a new hotel, kick off your shoes and all you want to do is stick on some telly for wallpaper. Except, on your telly screen is this. Oh. #TV #tunbridgewells #lightning #amazing
alokjha:
Technically this is a "hostile environment" #landscape #green #trees #nature #sky #sun #beautiful #pretty #tree #beauty #light #love #green #mothernature #me #instagood
alokjha:
Spoke at the historic Royal Institution last night about #TheWaterBook, with the legendary Lawrence McGinty running Q&A afterwards. My story went from Antarctica and the Southern Ocean to biological cells and exoplanets. An amazing, slightly nerve-rackin
alokjha:
A 340-year-old microscope made by the Dutch draper, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. He made the very first high-powered microscopes and, using them, became the first person to see bacteria, parasites, red blood cells and much more of the tiny universe, all of wh
alokjha:
Finally got a finished copy of The Water Book today. Took four years from the initial idea to this point.
alokjha:
Hubble's 25th anniversary pic: Westerlund 2, a giant cluster of about 3,000 star located 20,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Carina (Pic: NASA)
alokjha:
Hanging out in Astrium's Mars Yard, where they test out their rovers. Featuring Mars daylight bulbs
alokjha:
Spent the day filming here at Tempelfjorden in Svalbard. Fjords. They're amazing #amazing
alokjha:
This is totality. The Sun is completely covered but even just the tiny amounts of light from the corona make it look otherwise. Notice that the ground is in total darkness #eclipse
