by Jonathan Nally | Apr 3, 2022 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Deep sky, Galaxies, Meteors, News, Planets, Telescopes
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL FIND in the May/Jun 2022 issue of Australian Sky & Telescope magazine — on sale April 7. Pick up a copy at your local newsagency or get the digital issue. You can also save some money by subscribing to the print or digital editions. Features:...
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 | Dec 18, 2019 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Deep sky, Galaxies, News
Above: Galaxies NGC 5394 and NGC 5395, around 160 million light-years from Earth, are caught in a slow motion interaction. Image credit: NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory / Gemini Observatory / AURA. This image from the Gemini Observatory...
by Jonathan Nally | Sep 16, 2019 | Astronomy, Galaxies, News
Above: This new view of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) was made using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) VISTA telescope. The LMC can be glimpsed with the naked eye by observers in the Southern Hemisphere. Credit: ESO/VMC Survey A favourite of Southern...
