by Jonathan Nally | Dec 16, 2019 | Astronomy, Comets, News
Above: Comet 2I/Borisov with its ejected dust cloud and trail is seen in the centre of this picture, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. The white object at left is a far-distant background galaxy, the appearance of which is slightly smeared because the telescope...
by Jonathan Nally | Dec 13, 2019 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, News, Variable stars
The NSW regional city Parkes, home to the CSIRO radio observatory, will host the National Australian Convention of Amateur Astronomers in 2020. The premier Australian amateur astronomy conference, the National Australian Convention of Amateur Astronomers (or NACAA;...
by Jonathan Nally | Nov 29, 2019 | Astronomy, News, Telescopes
Above: Museums Victoria staff and volunteers with the Great Melbourne Telescope in the Pumping Station at Scienceworks in Spotswood. Every Wednesday since 2008, volunteers have gathered to painstakingly restore one of 19th-century Melbourne’s most remarkable...
by Jonathan Nally | Oct 24, 2019 | Astronomy, Comets, Cosmology, News
Above: On October 12, 2019, the Hubble Space Telescope observed Comet 2I/Borisov at a distance of approximately 420 million kilometres from Earth. Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA) The Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their best view yet of an...
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...
