Happy Birthday Pluto!
90 years ago today Pluto was discovered – just the third planet to be found in modern times.
Saturday, February 22 2020
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90 years ago today Pluto was discovered – just the third planet to be found in modern times.
New Horizon was sent off in 2005 to inspect Pluto with a stretch goal of flying past a Kuiper Belt object to help astronomers gain a better understanding of the early solar system. It turns out, there’s new lessons to be learnt…
For the first time, the US military has confirmed that it’s satellites are being interfered with by Russian inspection satellites. The astronomical community has known about this for a while though, and Dr Tucker and Matt discuss this on today’s in depth topic.
Boeing is suffering at the moment, not only is their 737-Max aircraft grounded following two deadly crashes last year, with no end in sight, but now the December uncrewed Starliner
Complementing NASA’s Solar Parker Probe and the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii is the latest addition to the solar system probe fleet – the Solar Orbiter.
As astronomers focus on SpaceX’s satellite internet delivery plan involving thousands of satellites, another company – OneWeb – is powering ahead with plans to deliver a rival offering.
The fabric of space-time got a little timey wimey – wibbly wobbly with the discovery of a spinning binary star system causing a real drag. Dr Brad Tucker and Matt
We’ve gotten our first detailed look at the surface of the Sun. Dr Brad Tucker and Matt Miller discuss this awesome view which is giving us insight into our closest
The crowded Earth orbit is posing serious hazards to spacecraft, with last week seeing the potential explosive destruction of two old satellites. You can find us everywhere you are… grab
In headlines this week, Brad and Matt reflect on the Spitzer Space Telescope and discuss NASA’s goal post shifting due to their budget oversight. You can find us everywhere you
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has reached the end of it’s mission as part of the Four Great Observatories observing the universe around us.
We’ve been talking about the space cookies for a couple of weeks now, but the analysis is in… and it’s not all good news.
DirecTV’s Spaceway-1, now only a backup satellite for the US cable network, suffered a critical failure recently, hear this snippet from this week’s Talkin’ Science, or catch the full ep
China’s gearing up to put their new crewed space capsule in orbit, as the Mars 2020 rover team shortlists 9 names.
Australia’s first astronaut spoke with Trekzone back in 2016 about his journey with NASA. Hear the start of that chat with host Matt Miller.
Dr. Geoff Campbell and his team are researching quantum computing and the ability to send information in a quantum state – to get even faster communications!
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.
Australia’s first sovereign orbital rocket designed and built has finally cleared all regulatory hurdles, and
International researchers have found a giant planet transiting a very young star, in research that indicates this could be the youngest transiting planet found to date.
New analysis of marsquakes, which are similar to earthquakes, could offer clues into how Mars has evolved over billions of years, according to new research from The Australian National University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Researchers from the Curtin node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research say they have made a record-breaking astrophysical discovery while simultaneously uncovering a possible explanation for the rare and extreme event known as long-period radio transients.
The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have occurred during a rare intense wind event, according to international researchers who say this means our scientific understanding of the planet may be flawed.
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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.
Australia’s first sovereign orbital rocket designed and built has finally cleared all regulatory hurdles, and now sits poised on the launchpad in Bowen as it
International researchers have found a giant planet transiting a very young star, in research that indicates this could be the youngest transiting planet found to date.
New analysis of marsquakes, which are similar to earthquakes, could offer clues into how Mars has evolved over billions of years, according to new research from The Australian National University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
It’s the end of the third week in February twenty twenty five. Here’s the science and space headlines we followed…
Researchers from the Curtin node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research say they have made a record-breaking astrophysical discovery while simultaneously uncovering a possible explanation for the rare and extreme event known as long-period radio transients.
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