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How do you get a job in space without leaving your home planet?

Australia has always contributed to wider space research, and we haven’t left the atmosphere to do so. See how you could work in the space sector.

Tech

Kids raid caves in virtual classroom

We're using the 3D maps of the Jenolan Caves, to create an interactive game for students to explore a virtual representation of the would famous site.

Space

The Sky in Your Hand

Working in astronomy education and outreach I’m often asked by people to recommend an app or piece of software for viewing the night sky. Luckily these days there are many wonderful apps available including many that utilise the sensors and GPS in smartphones and tablets to align your device with the real sky. For computer...

Space

Students Served Science on NASA Dishes

Year 7-9 ‘space explorers’ from Melrose High School in the ACT became the first students in Australia to perform ‘real science’ using large antenna dishes in NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN). With the support of their science teacher, Geoff McNamara and CSIRO radio astronomer Dr David Jauncey, the students actually controlled a 34-metre antenna dish...

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Space

Radio Galaxy Zoo – Help Hunt Down Supermassive Black Holes

Lurking at the core of most galaxies, supermassive black holes sometimes give themselves away through huge jets of radio emission streaming out vast distances into space. We can’t “see” these using optical telescopes, rather astronomers use radio telescopes to make an image of the region. Now you can help astronomers find more of these jets...

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Science meets the circus

By day, Jasmine is the editor of our Double Helix magazines and e-newsletters. By night, she swaps her writing tools for a hula hoop and trapeze. Jasmine is a devoted member of Warehouse Circus where she has taken up the art of hula hooping. And she’s pretty darn good at it too. Last year, Jasmine...

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Getting virtual at ‘The Dish’

Have you ever wanted to stand on the surface of the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope? Well now you can (well almost) with our new 360° virtual tour of the world famous ‘Dish’. The new Parkes radio telescope virtual tour offers a ‘behind the scenes’ view of the most famous radio telescope on the planet. Explore...

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Thanks a million!

By Janene Brown “So what’s it like to be a scientist or mathematician?” “What do you really do in your job?” Volunteers in the Scientists and Mathematicians in Schools program have been answering these questions since 2007 through over 3200 partnerships with scientists and teachers across the nation. During National Volunteer Week, the team at...

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Count Your Lucky Stars

Do you want to contribute to a global dark skies citizen science campaign? Globe at Night is a free international program where the public go outside, observe their local night sky and share their results via computer or a smartphone app. By comparing your local night sky with a range of images for different sky...

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