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Matt

Top 16 Cliffhangers

Well, the first week has passed us by of the new Trekzone Plexus Twitter Feed and I hope you enjoyed traveling up the list of the best cliffhangers.  Not all

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Mea Culpa

So, a few events happened over the last few days that have resulted in a mutual escalation on both sides of the Axanar fence. It all started when I felt

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Free Plug Thursday!

The Trekzone Spotlight isn’t the first, nor the only, podcast featuring and occasionally focusing on Star Trek – there are a heap of great ones out there. Today, I got

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Axanar Appears To Lurch Forward

UPDATE: Sphinxcon information has been found by a 1701NEWS reader: It appears convention goers will be shuttled to the for-profit studio where the Star Trek fan film is allegedly being

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A Spotlight On Potemkin Pictures

Following the successful ‘fan films done right’ series of episodes, it’s time to dip our toes back into Star Trek fan film making, and today’s guest has been producing some

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Aussies In Space!

When you think of NASA, you think of the American space program – not the many components that make up that behemoth of scientific research and space exploration… and now

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Part Two With Professor Tamara Davis

I’m continuing the deep dive on a science theme this week, with part two of my chat with Professor Tamara Davis from the University of Queensland.  She’s researching gravitational waves,

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Doctor Who Is Coming To Twitch!

Get set Whovians, the Beebs has announced it’s partnering with video streaming platform Twitch to broadcast classic Who five days a week at 11am US Pacific time (4am AEST.)  It’s

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Forthcoming Episodes

Despite the recent news that the Trekzone production camera and tripod were on the operating table getting much needed servicing after some unfortunate knocks in Perth, the show must go

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The Slowest Rotating ‘Cosmic Lighthouse’ Yet Discovered

Distant neutron stars typically spin a full 360 degrees within seconds. However, a new type of ‘radio transient object’ – so called as they are detected in radio waves – has emerged that rotate much more slowly. In the time it takes this cosmic lighthouse to rotate you could watch Interstellar twice before it completes a full spin.

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Mapping Ripples In A Cosmic Ocean

An international study led by Australian astronomers has created the most detailed maps of gravitational waves across the universe to date in three new research papers. The study also produced the largest ever galactic-scale gravitational wave detector and found further evidence of a “background” of these invisible yet incredibly fast ripples in space that can help unlock some major mysteries of the universe.

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How Saturn’s Rings Might Be Keeping A Youthful Appearance

Even though Saturn’s rings appear clean and young, they may be as old as the planet itself according to international researchers. It was previously thought that impacts with small rocky debris travelling through space – called micrometeoroids – would dirty and darken the rings over time, but in 2004 the Cassini spacecraft revealed the rings to be clean and bright suggesting that they are not very old.

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