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 | Jul 9, 2020 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Telescopes
ABOVE: The Anglo Australian Telescope at Siding Springs Observatory. Photo: Ángel R. López-Sánchez AUSTRALIA’S INVESTMENT IN ASTRONOMY and its hosting of two of the world’s most powerful telescopes means the country is well placed to contribute to more big...
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...
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...
by Jonathan Nally | Oct 23, 2019 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Telescopes
Above: A simulation of galaxies in the early Universe, as generated by the Summit supercomputer. Courtesy ASTRO 3D. Researchers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Perth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US and Shanghai...
