In an earlier post we revealed five things you (probably) didn’t know about the Parkes telescope. Well, here’s a sixth: […]
Three astronomers walked into a pub last Friday. Actually, there were several of them. And it wasn’t a pub, it […]
World Space Week begins today. So, where is space? It starts closer than you think. If you could drive straight […]
Batter my heart, three-person’d God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may […]
Yesterday was day two of the Galaxy Zoo conference in Sydney. For me, the highlight was a talk by Professor […]
The Galaxy Zoo conference (#GZconf) started in Sydney this morning. (It runs until Thursday.) For some reason it features a […]
moeyasuku mata kieyasuki hotaru kana It lights up as easily as it fades the firefly! This haiku comes from the […]
Only two more sleeps until the Compact Array celebrates its 25th birthday! So, what has the telescope been up to […]
Last Sunday, Sydney Observatory and Sydney City Skywatchers ran a visit to the birthplace of radio astronomy in Australia: Rodney […]
Congratulations to our astronomy student Vanessa Moss (aka @cosmicpudding) — last night she picked up the prize for the Best […]
In the journal Science today, astronomers using our Parkes telescope have revealed signs of cataclysms in the distant Universe. They’ve […]
Every so often a zoo announces that one of its rare, prized animals — a snow-leopard, say — has given birth. A […]
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