NASA’s next rover, Perseverance, on board the Mars 2020 spacecraft is set to lift off July 30 at 9:50 pm AEST (1150 GMT) on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The launch window opens at...
I am privileged to have known Dr Padma Yanamandra-Fisher from the Space Science Institute for some years now. We have worked together on ProAm projects relating to Comets and look forward to collaborating more in the future. In this the first of a series of Women in...
I did manage to catch a quick glimpse of Comet Neowise tonight from Milroy in my 9*63 binoculars but it was low in height and then a tree and cloud got in the way! Now we have 2 days of forecast cloud and rain 🙁 The southern Delta-Aquariids are active every year from...
Wondering why it was so cold last night and at present? It was Aphelion Day. The exact time of Aphelion here in Coonabarabran was 9:54pm last night. At that time distance from the centre of the Earth to the centre of the Sun was 152,095,295kms. Earth orbits the Sun in...
