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Keeping track for the European Space Agency

It’s been a big year in space for Australia! In 2019, we’ll be building on our experience to manage ESA’s New Norcia ground station in Western Australia – a first for an Australian organisation.

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Australia is still listening to Voyager 2 as NASA confirms the probe is now in interstellar space

Voyager 2 has entered interstellar space and is still sending back data that are picked up by radio telescopes in Australia.

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Good things come in small packages, satellites included

CubeSats - aka nanosatellites herald a new approach to Earth observation and remote sensing work for Australia. For their size, they punch well above their weight.

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NASA spacecraft arrives at Bennu asteroid

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has travelled more than 2 billion kilometres across the solar system and has now officially arrived in Bennu’s orbit.

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Sydney Harbour as seen from space: it’s not just black and white

The first images from the new NovaSAR-1 satellite – which has superpowers including night vision and the ability to see through clouds – have just been received.

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The search for the source of a mysterious fast radio burst comes relatively close to home

Astronomers think they've identified which galaxy was the source of a blast radio energy, over in a fraction of a second. And it's much closer to us than the others detected, so far.

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Dying, not waving: nearby dwarf galaxy running out of gas

Even though it’s on an astronomical timeline, a close intergalactic neighbour of ours known as the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is slowly dying.

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Explosions in the sky: ASKAP detects 20 new Fast Radio Bursts

It took the world's telescopes 10 years to find approximately 20 FRBs. Using ASKAP, a team of Aussie scientist have been able to find 20 in one year.

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Space: Australia’s next Moon shot

We’re looking to the stars with our space roadmap, helping to chart the course for Australia’s future in space.

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New super-powered satellite blasts off

With superpowers including night vision and the ability to see through clouds, NovaSAR-1 has just blasted into orbit around Earth. Australian researchers will soon benefit from this new ‘eye in the sky’.

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Curious Kids: Where are all the other galaxies hidden?

Where are all the other galaxies hidden? – Sasha, age 7, Sydney. This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer.

How to grow crops on Mars if we are to live on the red planet

If humans are to live on Mars they will need a stable supply of food. Earth plants are not suited to the Mars climate but we can engineer plants that are.

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