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Star Leader

We’re extremely proud of our very own Dr Kimberley Clayfield who has just won a Women’s Agenda Leadership Award. The […]

Comets Everywhere!! If you’re fast and you’ve got clear dark skies, this is a great time to head outside, look […]

Take a bow, Darren Chase of Adelaide! You too, Steve Mellor of Perth (WA). Darren and Steve are just two […]

Do Martian rocks taste nice? We can now ask that question of the Mars Science Laboratory, otherwise known as Curiosity. […]

Mesmerised by solar rain I often like to just sit at the window and watch the rain coming down outside. […]

You can now watch the eerie dance of near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 which recently passed less than 27,700 km from the […]

Deep Space Station 43 (DSS43) at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) has been tracking spacecraft for nearly forty […]

Everyone loves a close encounter (especially on Valentine’s day). For spaceprobes, it’s their whole reason for existing. They’re out there, […]

Stellar nursery for a baby Black Hole Astronomers studying a supernova remnant located 26,000 light years from Earth, may have found evidence […]

Do you want to contribute to a global dark skies citizen science campaign? Globe at Night is a free international […]

Astronomers have been using our Parkes radio telescope to study the cosmic train-wreck that is Abell 3667. Abell 3667 is […]

CSIRO’s PULSE@Parkes project gives high students the opportunity to control the iconic Parkes 64m radio telescope, the Dish, remotely in […]

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