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Artist's impression of galaxies 24/07/2010 Where is the antimatter?

Space station experiment will search for weird forms of matter. Watch the video...

Planck microwave image of the universe 06/07/2010 Cosmic baby photo

A satellite image of the Big Bang afterglow image shows the universe in its infant state.

A coronal mass ejection from the Sun 24/06/2010 Stormy Sun

A solar explosion sends a billion-tonne cloud of particles heading straight for Earth.

Comet Halley 16/06/2010 Famous comets are foreigners

History’s most famous comets were stolen from other star systems.

Star cluster and nebula NGC 3603 08/06/2010 Hubble spots stars on the move

Surprising signs of unrest in a massive cluster of stars 20,000 light-years away.

Diagram of Jupiter-type planets orbiting the star Upsilon Andromedae A 30/05/2010 Wacky planets force a rethink

Planets with angled orbits challenge ideas of how multi-planet systems evolve.

Artist's impression of a planet being eclipsed by its star 13/05/2010 A planet that “tastes” funny

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has found a weird planet that lacks a common gas.

The Square Kilometre Array 04/08/2010 The world's largest radio observatory, the SKA

This video showcases the SKA and the amazing astronomical research it will perform.

A starbirth nebula 17/03/2010 The Great Red Spot Revealed

New thermal images from powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter's Great Red Spot, giving scientists their first detailed interior weather map of the giant storm system..

A starbirth nebula 17/02/2010 The violent but beautiful process of starbirth

A dramatic new image illustrates the dynamic and sometimes violent process of starbirth.

Artist's impression of a black hole with a companion star 06/02/2010 Black hole sets new distance record

Astronomers have discovered a black hole in a spiral galaxy six million light-years from Earth.

Artist's impression of planets orbiting a distant star 22/01/2010 Only 15 percent of planetary systems are like ours

In their quest to find planetary systems like ours, astronomers have determined how common our Solar System might be.

08/01/2010 My Astro Shop delivers new C-14 to Mapleton Observatory

My Astro Shop supplies classic southern QLD public observatory with a new larger Celestron Schmidt Cassegrain telescope.

 

2009 Winner Sky-Watcher 10-inch Newtonian winner

My Astro Shop was once again one of this years sponsors of the renowned CWAS AstroFest and David Malin awards held at Parkes NSW in July.
In conjunction with the 40th Anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, almost 7000 people enjoyed the weekend visiting the famous Parkes radio dish and taking an opportunity to look through amateur telescopes.Our congratulations to young budding astronomer Shannan Pratt who was the lucky winner!!
 

Distant galaxies spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope 08/01/2010 Hubble finds most distant primeval galaxies

The Hubble Telescope has broken the cosmic distance limit by finding a bunch of galaxies that have never been seen before.

Diagram showing the life cycle of a Sun-like star 09/12/2009 Aussie astronomers uncover cosmic mystery

Variations in the brightness of Sun-like stars defy current ideas of stellar evolution.

An artist's impression of ASKAP 01/12/2009 New telescope gets go ahead in Western Australia

Australia's Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope will be built in Western Australia's mid-west.

Artist's impression of gamma-rays from a gamma-ray burst 30/10/2009 Einstein wins again

A space race between two gamma-rays has ended in a dead heat, shedding light on the nature of space, time and gravity.

An artist's impression of an alien planet 21/10/2009 32 new distant planets found!

Astronomers have announced the discovery of dozens of planets orbiting nearby stars.

An artist's impression of Saturn's newly-found ring 08/10/2009 Huge new ring found circling Saturn

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn--by far the largest of the giant planet's many rings.

XXXX 19/09/2009 Small, alien planet is a hot super-Earth

Astronomers have made groundbreaking measurements of a planet they've likened to Dante's inferno.

XXXX 04/09/2009 Space telescope finds celestial Rosetta stone

A space telescope has made the first close-up study of a tiny star that will one day explode.

Artist's concept of the Stardust spacecraft encountering comet Wild 2 18/08/2009 Chemical of life found on a comet

NASA researchers have made the first detection of one of life's building block's in a comet.

An artist's impression of the star Betelgeuse 31/07/2009 Unveiling the true face of a "superstar"

Sharpest-ever views of the star Betelgeuse show it blowing a huge wind into space.

An artist's impression of the Thirty Metre Telescope 23/07/2009 Hawai'i selected for next super-scope

Hawai'i will be home to the Thirty Metre Telescope, the most capable and advanced telescope ever built.

Artist's impression of a planet and a distant planetary system in the background 07/07/2009 Double planetary system in the making

Astronomers have spotted a twin star system, with each star probably forming its own planets.

An artist's impression of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft entering lunar orbit 27/06/2009 Moon mission enters lunar orbit

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has achieved orbit around the Moon.

Mars' odd moon Deimos 21/06/2009 Mars' odd moon Deimos

Amazing images of Mars' tiny potato-shaped moon, Deimos.

An artist's impression of the Sun shining through Earth's atmosphere, from the point of view of a satellite 13/06/2009 The search for ET just got easier

Having found signs of life on Earth, scientists are turning their gaze skyward.

Artist's impression of a black hole 30/05/2009 Up close with a black hole

Astronomers have seen a black hole gobbling up the equivalent of two Earth's every hour.

The Helix nebula 18/05/2009 Hot mission begins for NASA's coolest telescope

Its helium coolant depleted, NASA's Spitzer space telescope has begun life anew as a "warm telescope".

Do rogue black holes roam the Milky Way? 02/05/2009 Do rogue black holes roam the Milky Way?

New calculations imply that hundreds of massive black holes might be wandering the Milky Way.

Hubble finds a hidden planet 03/04/2009 Hubble finds a hidden planet

Scientists are beginning to find distant planets lurking in over a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope archival data.

Satellite spots the start of a cosmic explosion 11/03/2009 Satellite spots the start of a cosmic explosion

Astronomers have captured a glimpse of the early stages of a gamma-ray burst— biggest kind of explosion since the Big Bang.

Huge 23/02/2009 Huge "virtual" telescope shows giant star

An amazing new image shows a huge ball of gas surrounding a star 100 times bigger than our Sun.

An artist's impression of a magnetar 12/02/2009 Space telescopes spot a gamma-ray fireworks star

NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have spotted high-energy fireworks from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years away.

Worms in space 02/02/2009 Worms in space!

No, it's not a hopeless Hollywood sci-fi flick. Researchers hope to learn more about human muscle disorders by sending worms into space.

A stellar zombie star 21/01/2008 Stellar zombie awakes!

A satellite telescope has picked up the fading glow of an extremely rare class of stellar zombie—the dead heart of a star that refuses to die.

A star zooming away from the edge of our Milky Way galaxy could be a runaway from a supernova explosion. 02/01/2009 Astronomers spot a high-speed runaway star

A star seen zooming away from the edge of our Milky Way galaxy could be a runaway from a supernova explosion.


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