by Jonathan Nally | Mar 3, 2021 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Meteors, News
A new festival that celebrates our historic and current connection with the night sky, will be held at Earth Sanctuary in Alice Springs from May 6 to 14, 2021. The Dark Skies Festival “will take visitors on a journey of light, sound and darkness beneath one of the...
by Jonathan Nally | Feb 13, 2021 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Galaxies
ABOVE: Some of the dishes of the CSIRO’s ASKAP radio telescope array in Western Australia. ASKAP is located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory site, the traditional owners of which are the Wajarri Yamaji. Scientists who were the first to pinpoint the...
by Jonathan Nally | Feb 9, 2021 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Deep sky, Features, Galaxies, News, Telescopes
Here’s what you’ll find in the Mar/Apr 2021 issue of Australian Sky & Telescope magazine — on sale this week at your local newsagent, or you can subscribe to the print or digital edition. Features: How did we get the asteroid belt? — Asteroids might tell us...
by Jonathan Nally | Aug 21, 2020 | Astronomy, News, Space missions
Above: Artist’s impression of Hayabusa2 nearing Earth in December 2020. Image ©Akihiro Ikeshita. AUSTRALIA HAS GIVEN the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) official approval to land the sample-return module of its Hayabusa2 spacecraft on Australian soil in...
by Jonathan Nally | Aug 18, 2020 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Telescopes
Above: WA Premier, Mark McGowan, visited Joseph Banks Secondary College to make the announcement of a $16.1m upgrade to school facilities. Image courtesy Joseph Banks Secondary College. PERTH’S JOSEPH BANKS SECONDARY COLLEGE will get a new building featuring a space...
by Jonathan Nally | Aug 17, 2020 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, News
Here’s what you’ll find in the Sep/Oct issue of Australian Sky & Telescope magazine — on sale now at your local newsagent, or you can subscribe to the print or digital edition. Features: The hunt for the first exomoons — Scientists are trying to detect moons...
