by Jonathan Nally | Oct 3, 2021 | News, Planets, Space missions
THE BEPICOLOMBO SPACECRAFT HAS SUCCESSFULLY conducted its first trajectory-changing flyby of Mercury, three years after launch and almost four years prior to reaching its final orbit around the innermost planet. During the flyby on October 1 UTC (October 2, Australian...
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...
