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...
by Jonathan Nally | Sep 23, 2019 | Features, News, Space missions
Above: An artist’s impression of a future lunar base. Courtesy NASA. The federal government has committed to investing $150 million into Australian businesses and locally developed technologies to support NASA’s lunar exploration campaign. The five-year...
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...
by Jonathan Nally | Sep 13, 2019 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Features, News
Above: Andy Casely’s sequence of Mars images, ‘Death of Opportunity’. Two Australian astrophotographers have been announced as winners, runners up or highly commended in the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s title of Insight Investment Astronomy...
by Jonathan Nally | Mar 12, 2018 | Astronomy, News
Above: The Hubble Space Telescope’s view of Arp 256, where two galaxies collided long ago. Galaxies are not static islands of stars — they are dynamic and ever-changing, constantly on the move through the darkness of the Universe. Sometimes, as seen in this...
by Jonathan Nally | Feb 14, 2018 | News, Space missions
For a short time, this New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) frame of the ‘Wishing Well’ star cluster, taken December 5, 2017, was the farthest image ever made by a spacecraft, breaking a 27-year record set by Voyager 1. About two hours later, New...
