by Jonathan Nally | Sep 29, 2021 | Astronomy, News, Planets
Above: Jupiter and its Great Red Spot, with the moon Europa on the left. The image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on 25 August 2020, when the planet was 653 million kilometres from Earth. Image credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M....
by Jonathan Nally | Jan 14, 2020 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Features, News
ECLIPSES, OPPOSITIONS, SPECTACULAR CONJUNCTIONS, a close encounter between Venus and the Pleiades and many more celestial sights await stargazers this year. Here’s our list of events to mark in your calendar. All of them are as seen from mid-latitudes in the Southern...
by Jonathan Nally | Jan 9, 2020 | News, Space missions
NASA’s buoyant robot roams under the sea-ice near Australia’s Casey research station. Photo: NASA/JPL/SETI Institute/Australian Antarctic Division. A PROTOTYPE OF A ROBOT designed to explore underneath the ice crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa, has been tested at...
by Jonathan Nally | Aug 13, 2019 | Astronomy, Planets
The image above shows amazing detail and colour in Jupiter’s cloud bands, as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The planet’s famous Great Red Spot (GRS) — about twice the diameter of Earth — is prominent. The giant anticyclone is nestled between two bands of...
