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Through direct comparison with images from Hubble, you can start to see the exquisite detail and clarity Webb provides.
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and one of our closest neighbors in space. But it’s not a very welcoming place for an Earthling to visit.
A glimpse of a distant Jupiter-sized exoplanet sheds light on how gas giants form.
The Hubble Space Telescope could gaze back 13.4 billion years, and with the JWST we expect to improve on this possibly to 13.55 billion years.
Clouds, hellish temperatures, endless nights? Characterizing the atmosphere of exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the sun, is a formidable task.
Plus, the tactics the food industry is using to boost sales of ultra-processed foods in middle-income countries. Listen to The Conversation Weekly.
India may land on the Moon this coming year, while Nasa will launch its new, powerful rocket farther into space than any other human rated spacecraft.
Fantasy fiction provides more than escapism for young readers.
Thirty years ago the Hubble Space Telescope began snapping photos of distant stars, providing a time machine that has taken astronomers back to when the universe was less than a billion years old.
New research using the Hubble Space Telescope reveals that galaxies may be forming at faster rates than previously believed.
Poets and scientists don’t occupy separate poles in the quest to understand the universe. In many ways, they sing from the same hymn sheet.
35 years ago Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. But rather than focus on her own extraordinary achievements, her passion became boosting the number of girls pursuing STEM. Another pioneering astronaut remembers her friend and colleague.
Astronomers report the first ever measurement of light bending around a star other than our own.
People used to think that when they looked up at the night sky, they were seeing all of space. Then American astronomer Edwin Hubble found out something so amazing, NASA named a telescope after him.
It’s almost impossible for any human to spot something unknown or unusual in the massive amount of data collected by our telescopes. So we’re teaching an intelligent machine to search the data for us.
There’s now strong evidence that Europa might be a worthwhile place to search for life.
Stargazing seems such a quiet, calm activity. But whether our eyes can see or not, those stars out there are in constant flux. Time-domain astronomy studies how cosmic objects change with time.
Each fortnight I get the amazing opportunity to speak about my top stories in space on ABC Breakfast News TV but for those of you who hate early mornings I wanted to make sure you got to hear of these…
2015 was a year where we expanded our view of the universe, embraced new technologies and got a hint of the profound changes to come.
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Director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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ARC Laureate Fellow & Distinguished Professor, Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria and Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne, Museums Victoria
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Professor of Astrophysics and Space Science, University of Leicester
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Professor, School of Science, Western Sydney University
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Professor and Associate Dean (Research), UNSW Sydney
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Director, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor of Astrophysics, University of Sydney
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Astronomer-at-Large, Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, Australian Astronomical Observatory
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Head of Education and Public Outreach LSST, Australian Astronomical Observatory
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Senior Instrument Scientist, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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Professor of Physics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Planetary Science and Astrobiology, Birkbeck, University of London; Honorary Associate Professor, UCL
