Skies in the Northern Hemisphere have been graced by a rare, green comet. Now, it’s our turn to look for it in Australia – but the view will be dimming rapidly.
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Geminids – the best meteor shower of the year – are about to grace the skies. Here’s everything you need to know.
People across Australia and New Zealand will be able to catch the blood moon. Here’s how to get the best view.
Could the Tau Herculid meteor shower put on a spectacular show next week? Only time will tell.
Each year, the Earth runs through a broad river of dust surrounding Comet Halley – giving birth to the spectacular Eta Aquariid meteor shower.
The Orion Star Count 2022 calls on us to go outside and count the stars of Orion.
April 26 is the first supermoon of the year.
There are some great opportunities to see the planet travelling across the night skies.
SpaceX’s satellites will populate the night sky, affecting how we observe the stars. And this is just the beginning of private satellite mega-constellations.
COVID-19 may have messed up school and shut down a lot of entertainment venues. But you can still brighten things up by doing a little stargazing at night, an astronomer says.
By 2025 Elon Musk wants to launch 12,000 satellites and corner the global Internet market. What will be lost is earth-based astronomy, the idea that space belongs to us all and the beauty of a starry sky.
There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so for a long time.
Dark sky sites can inspire new generations of stargazers, but a better long-term solution would be connecting people with the night sky where they live.
Around the world and throughout history, we find remarkably similar constellations defined by disparate cultures, as well as strikingly similar narratives describing the relationships between them.
The first 60 satellites from Elon Musk’s planned low orbit internet network have lit up the skies. But with more planned, astronomers say the satellites could ruin their work.
A bright comet visible in December provides an excellent viewing opportunity for night sky lovers – even potentially with the naked eye.
We are in the Milky Way. If you travelled on an extremely fast spaceship for more than two million years, you would reach our neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy. All other galaxies are even further away.
Pretty much as soon as we understood what galaxies were, we realised they are all moving away from each other. And the ones that are further away are moving faster. In short, the universe is expanding.
A couple thousand satellites are orbiting Earth right now. Under the right conditions, your naked eye can spot these human-made objects in the night sky.
A bunch of uncommon things all happening at the same time mean this full moon will have some special attributes.
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne and Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria Research Institute
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Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University
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Director of the Abrams Planetarium, Michigan State University
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PhD Candidate in Space History, UCL
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Lecturer in Astronomy, Nottingham Trent University
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University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
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Astrophysicist/Cosmologist, Australian National University
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Teaching Professor, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University
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Lecturer, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology
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Honorary Professor, Centre for Astrophysics, University of Southern Queensland
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Pro Vice-Chancellor Flagship Initiatives, Swinburne University of Technology
