by Jonathan Nally | Jan 28, 2020 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Telescopes
Above: CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope is to be equipped with a new receiver system, called ‘cryoPAF,’ which will triple the telescope’s field of view. Image courtesy CSIRO. TWO OF THE CSIRO’S RADIO TELESCOPE FACILITIES — Parkes and the Australia Telescope Compact...
by Jonathan Nally | Jan 14, 2020 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Features, News
ECLIPSES, OPPOSITIONS, SPECTACULAR CONJUNCTIONS, a close encounter between Venus and the Pleiades and many more celestial sights await stargazers this year. Here’s our list of events to mark in your calendar. All of them are as seen from mid-latitudes in the Southern...
by Jonathan Nally | Jan 9, 2020 | News, Space missions
NASA’s buoyant robot roams under the sea-ice near Australia’s Casey research station. Photo: NASA/JPL/SETI Institute/Australian Antarctic Division. A PROTOTYPE OF A ROBOT designed to explore underneath the ice crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa, has been tested at...
by Jonathan Nally | Jan 8, 2020 | Astronomy, Cosmology
Above: Artist’s impression of the binary neutron star merger producing GW190425, thought to have resulted in the formation of a black hole. See the video below for a better understanding. Credit: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet....
