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Astronomy

July 2024

  • Planet Venus

    Signs of two gases in clouds of Venus could indicate life, scientists say

  • Large digital billboards cast light across the intersection of Flinders and Swanston streets

    Let there be night: digital billboards to be turned off to curb light pollution under Melbourne city proposal

  • Earth, Apophis and the equipment from the Ramses mission

    Scientists set sights on asteroid larger than Eiffel Tower as it skims past Earth

  • A light on a probe in space shines into an underground rocky pit, with the Earth seen behind.

    Underground cave found on moon could be ideal base for explorers

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: International Space Station passes over London

  • ‘Amazing’ new technology set to transform the search for alien life

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: moon will obscure brightest star in Virgo

  • Meteor flashes across night sky in northern Turkey – video

  • ‘Once-in-a-lifetime event’: rare chance to see explosion on dwarf star 3,000 light years away

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: A 2,600-year wait to see T Coronae Borealis explosion

June 2024

  • Starwatch 23 June

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: The moon heads for Saturn in the early hours

  • A galaxy (Photograph: ESO/M. Kornmesser/PA Wire)

    Science Weekly
    A black hole awakens and why some people avoid Covid: the week in science – podcast

  • A gassy disc of glowing orange light, with a bright white spot in the centre, in space

    Astronomers detect sudden awakening of black hole 1m times mass of sun

  • St Mary's Lighthouse is silhouetted against the sky

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: Noctilucent clouds are a great summer spectacle

  • Is there life on one of Saturn’s moons? Scientists plan a mission to find out

  • Early morning frost spotted on some of Mars’s huge mountains

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: The moon moves into a nice conjunction with star Spica

  • ‘We’re trying to find the shape of space’: scientists wonder if the universe is like a doughnut

  • Carbon detected in galaxy observed 350m years after big bang

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: Get to know the Great Diamond asterism

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