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06/02/2010 |
Black hole sets new distance record
Astronomers have discovered a black hole in a spiral galaxy six million light-years from Earth.
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22/01/2010 |
Only 15 percent of planetary systems are like ours
In their quest to find planetary systems like ours, astronomers have determined how common our Solar System might be.
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08/01/2010 |
My Astro Shop delivers new
C-14 to Mapleton Observatory
My Astro Shop supplies classic southern QLD public
observatory with a new larger Celestron Schmidt Cassegrain
telescope.
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2009
Winner |
Sky-Watcher 10-inch Newtonian winner
My Astro Shop was once again one of this years
sponsors of the renowned
CWAS AstroFest and David Malin awards
held at Parkes NSW in July. In conjunction
with the 40th Anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon
landing, almost 7000 people enjoyed the weekend visiting the
famous Parkes radio dish and taking an opportunity to look
through amateur telescopes.Our
congratulations to young budding astronomer Shannan Pratt who
was the lucky winner!!
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08/01/2010 |
Hubble finds most distant primeval galaxies
The Hubble Telescope has broken the cosmic distance limit by finding a bunch of galaxies that have never been seen before.
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09/12/2009 |
Aussie astronomers uncover cosmic mystery
Variations in the brightness of Sun-like stars defy current ideas of stellar evolution.
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01/12/2009 |
New telescope gets go ahead in Western Australia
Australia's Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope will be built in Western Australia's mid-west.
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30/10/2009 |
Einstein wins again
A space race between two gamma-rays has ended in a dead heat, shedding light on the nature of space, time and gravity.
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21/10/2009 |
32 new distant planets found!
Astronomers have announced the discovery of dozens of planets orbiting nearby stars.
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08/10/2009 |
Huge new ring found circling Saturn
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn--by far the largest of the giant planet's many rings.
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19/09/2009 |
Small, alien planet is a hot super-Earth
Astronomers have made groundbreaking measurements of a planet they've likened to Dante's inferno.
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04/09/2009 |
Space telescope finds celestial Rosetta stone
A space telescope has made the first close-up study of a tiny star that will one day explode.
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18/08/2009 |
Chemical of life found on a comet
NASA researchers have made the first detection of one of life's building block's in a comet.
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31/07/2009 |
Unveiling the true face of a "superstar"
Sharpest-ever views of the star Betelgeuse show it blowing a huge wind into space.
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23/07/2009 |
Hawai'i selected for next super-scope
Hawai'i will be home to the Thirty Metre Telescope, the most capable and advanced telescope ever built.
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07/07/2009 |
Double planetary system in the making
Astronomers have spotted a twin star system, with each star probably forming its own planets.
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27/06/2009 |
Moon mission enters lunar orbit
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has achieved orbit around the Moon.
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21/06/2009 |
Mars' odd moon Deimos
Amazing images of Mars' tiny potato-shaped moon, Deimos.
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13/06/2009 |
The search for ET just got easier
Having found signs of life on Earth, scientists are turning their gaze skyward.
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30/05/2009 |
Up close with a black hole
Astronomers have seen a black hole gobbling up the equivalent of two Earth's every hour.
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18/05/2009 |
Hot mission begins for NASA's coolest telescope
Its helium coolant depleted, NASA's Spitzer space telescope has begun life anew as a "warm telescope".
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02/05/2009 |
Do rogue black holes roam the Milky Way?
New calculations imply that hundreds of massive black holes might be wandering the Milky Way.
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03/04/2009 |
Hubble finds a hidden planet
Scientists are beginning to find distant planets lurking in over a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope archival data.
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11/03/2009 |
Satellite spots the start of a cosmic
explosion
Astronomers have captured a glimpse of the early stages of a gamma-ray burst— biggest
kind of explosion since the Big Bang.
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23/02/2009 |
Huge "virtual" telescope
shows giant star
An amazing new image shows a huge ball of gas surrounding a star 100 times bigger than our
Sun.
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12/02/2009 |
Space telescopes spot a gamma-ray
fireworks star
NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have spotted high-energy
fireworks from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years away.
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02/02/2009 |
Worms in space!
No, it's not a hopeless Hollywood sci-fi flick. Researchers hope to learn more about human
muscle disorders by sending worms into space.
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21/01/2008 |
Stellar zombie awakes!
A satellite telescope has picked up the fading glow of an extremely rare class of stellar
zombie—the dead heart of a star that refuses to die.
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02/01/2009 |
Astronomers spot a high-speed runaway
star
A star seen zooming away from the edge of our Milky Way galaxy could be a runaway from a
supernova explosion.
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