Great work, Steve!

Stitched and processed mosaic of several different images taken by the Mars rover Curiosity showing the view ahead...

New view of Mars, sent back by Curiosity... Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/S Atkinson

a cat is sitting on a stone wall eating a fish . ALT: a cat is sitting on a stone wall eating a fish .

1979...for pity's sake...

Ok, if you're getting a Halo Jones series I must *insist* on a series for this bunch of criminally under-appreciated heroes too...

It seems making dormice in leaf baskets are soothing my anxious stress and worry waiting for solicitors to do something and the house move chaos of will we won’t we move next week or not.
This one is on the new collection page if you’d like a little dormouse to sooth your worries too.

Just need a Halo Jones movie now... And a Strontium Dog movie... And an ABC Warriors movie...

Rogue Trooper | Official Teaser Trailer YouTube video by 2000 AD

(taps mic) Paging @louiestowell.bsky.social ... youtu.be/byd5PRryi_Y?...

Pictures showing Jess, the rescue cat which owns astronomy writer Stuart Atkinson, with a feature he has written for a magazine

Jess is far too busy grooming herself to care, but I'm chuffed to have another piece in the BBC Sky at Night magazine! The new May issue includes my very personal take on the build-up to the recent Artemis II mission...

Stitched together and processed mosaic of two individual images sent back by the Mars rover Perseverance

...meanwhile, on Mars, a nuclear-powered robot scientist is exploring this beautiful landscape and sending back glorious views like this... Perseverance Images Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Atkinson

Yep... Looks like writing will be delayed...

Jess, the black and white cat which owns amateur astronomer and writer Stuart Atkinson

I need to get a lot of writing done today - a *lot*. But I think someone has other plans for me...

This was earlier tonight, about 9pm BST

Beautiful work...

Artemis II told through 10 mini paintings 💚

originals & prints will be available in May. Which one is your favorite?

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The crescent Moon and Venus shining close together in the evening twilight in the sky above Kendal, Cumbria earlier tonight (Sunday April 19th) taken with a Google Pixel phone

The crescent Moon and Venus shining close together in the evening twilight in the sky above Kendal, Cumbria earlier tonight...

Authors Live: Gary Panton and Dotty Sutton Author-illustrator team behind The Notwitches join us on Authors Live

Very much excited out of my mind and face to say that me and my awesome illustrator friend Dotty are going to be the guests on BBC's Authors Live next month. It's going out live at 11am on 27th May and will stay on iPlayer afterwards. Schools can register to get involved and all the deets are below!

...and I did have this waiting up for me when I got back home...

Well *that* was a waste of time... Comet R3 was too low to see well and by the time it was a few degrees above the horizon the sky was so bright the SeeStar rejected *every* frame for lack of stars, so I have this screenshot and that's it! Oh well, at least I saw it a few days ago...

Jess would like it to be known that she has a new box, so she will be unavailable for some time. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 😊

That's excellent work. Curiosity - and her team - continues to show us the wonders of Mars :-)

On a more serious note I just want people to *read* it. I love my story (imagine Wednesday Addams sent to the Yellowstone ranch - on Mars!!) & think others would too. But the whole agent thing is now so soul-destroyingly difficult & cold it's like the Doctor trying to chip through that diamond wall.

Mesmerising...

I'm aiming impossibly, unrealistically high: get a response from one of the many agents I query, instead of being ignored and made to feel like I'm invisible. I know, I know. I'll wish for a dragon instead.

Wow. I've never seen that design before. It's amazing. Thank you!

*Rocky will watch over Jess while she sleeps*

I meant it was dumb the way the follow up *plans* to retrieve them - from the rover and from the "Depot" - have just been dumped, not the way the samples were deposited *for* collection. All that time, money and science just thrown away. It's beyond ridiculous.

Even if they are covered over their location was logged very precisely, so they'll be easy to recover by an astronaut with a good sweeping brush... :-)

Yes, some are still inside. But there are now no plans to collect **any** of them, which is just a criminal waste of very precious science.

Hardly littering. Half - the "reserves" - were left in one small, well-defined area, its location well documented, a back-up plan for sample collection if anything catastrophic happened to the rover. That was actually one of the most sensible elements of MSR.