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Here’s what’s in our Mar/Apr issue

Here’s what’s in our Mar/Apr issue

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...
Asteroid mission to land in Australia in December

Asteroid mission to land in Australia in December

by Jonathan Nally | Jul 15, 2020 | Features, News, Space missions

ABOVE: An artist’s impression of Hayabusa2 returning to Earth in December 2020. Courtesy JAXA. THE LANDING DATE FOR THE HAYABUSA2 MISSION’S sample-return capsule has been announced. The craft will touch down within the Woomera Prohibited Area in South Australia on...
Astronomers to attempt world record on June 21

Astronomers to attempt world record on June 21

by Jonathan Nally | Jun 19, 2020 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Features, News

ABOVE: City lights below can spoil our view of the stars above. Credit: Y. Beletsky (LCO)/ESO. By Marnie Ogg ASTRONOMERS NATURALLY REVEL IN THE DARK, yet for hundreds of years the disciples of the night sky have watched it disappear into a haze of light pollution. As...
Siding Spring to get new infrared survey telescope

Siding Spring to get new infrared survey telescope

by Jonathan Nally | May 31, 2020 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Features, News, Telescopes

Above: An artist’s impression of gas swirling into a black hole. The Dynamic REd All-Sky Monitoring Survey (DREAMS) telescope will try to spot infrared radiation from black holes, neutron stars, quasars and many other objects in deep space. A NEW INFRARED...
Your night sky guide for 2020

Your night sky guide for 2020

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...
New teaching telescope for Canberra

New teaching telescope for Canberra

by Jonathan Nally | Sep 29, 2019 | Amateur astronomy, Features, News, Telescopes

Above: The domes of the McNamara-Saunders Astronomical Teaching Telescope 2 at Mount Stromlo Observatory. Image courtesy MSATT. High school students in the ACT are now the envy of their peers in other parts of the country, following the opening on September 25 of an...
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