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Meteor showers for 2016
Silvia Choi is an astronomy guide at Sydney Observatory and avid meteor chaser! Below she discuss upcoming meteor showers for 2016. You may have heard about the Geminids meteor shower that appeared in...
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Follow the “Pale Red Dot” search for planets around Proxima Centauri
Is there a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, our closest night time star? In 1915 Robert Innes discovered that Proxima Centauri was our closest star not far from bright Alpha Centauri. Last year I...
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See all five naked eye planets in January & February 2016
From late January through February 2016 all five naked eye planets will be visible at once in the pre-dawn sky. This planetary arrangement occurs on average every 12 years. What can I see and when? To...
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Energy, Mass, the Velocity of Light and Cake
Einstein’s Relativity is a little over a century old, and is still our best description of space and time. But trying to explain this unintuitive theory of distorted space and time, without using...
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February 2016 night sky guide and sky chart
To help you learn about the southern night sky, Sydney Observatory provides a guide and a sky map or chart each month. This month’s guide is presented by Melissa Hulbert, Sydney Observatory’s Astronomy...
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Blast from the past: the ‘Super’ nova
Kirsten Banks is a guide at Sydney Observatory and is currently studying physics at UNSW. Below she discusses a recently observed supernova and explains what supernovae are. Astronomers have recently...
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Seeing a stellar cataclysm
Les Dalrymple is a guide at Sydney Observatory and a passionate deep sky observer. Below he discusses one of his favourite objects to observe – a supernova. Supernovae are usually associated with a...
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Do Black Holes Twinkle?
Dr Rajan Chhetri is a guide at Sydney Observatory. He researches Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and below discusses the interesting phenomenon that blacks holes might twinkle. We’ve all sung or heard...
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Mars caught by the claw
Les Dalrymple is a guide at Sydney Observatory and a keen all hours observer. Below he discusses one of our nearest neighbours, the red planet Mars. Many have been outside in the early hours of the...
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Sydney Observatory – Past and Present
Brenan Dew is an astronomy guide at Sydney Observatory and is currently working on his PhD at Macquarie University. Below he discusses the history of Sydney Observatory. Little has changed on...
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