by Jonathan Nally | Mar 3, 2021 | News, Space missions
ABOVE: Part of Perseverance’s new high-definition panoramic image of its landing site on Mars. NASA has released a new high-definition panoramic image from the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, as the wheeled craft prepares to start exploring its new home. Perseverance...
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 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 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...
by Jonathan Nally | Aug 10, 2020 | Astronomy, News, Telescopes
Above: The CSIRO’s 64-metre-diameter Parkes radio telescope, located in central NSW. Credit: CSIRO/A. Cherney. AUSTRALIA’S MOST FAMOUS RADIO DISH, the Parkes radio telescope in central NSW, has been added to the official National Heritage List. Construction of the...
