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21.01.2022 Supernovas, remember that we are primarily a study group. Therefore, this time of year is a great time to have your last look at the constellation Scorpius as it slowly gets lower on the western horizon. Just 10-minutes outside each week will keep your constellation identification skills up to standard. You'll also see the planets Jupiter and Saturn towards your zenith.

20.01.2022 SUPERNOVA SNIPPET: On this day in 1960, a W.R.E. (Weapons Research Establishment), Ionosphere-solar mission on a Skylark 2 rocket was launched from the Woomera Rocket Range in South Australia.

20.01.2022 The latest NASA Mars misison scheduled for touchdown on February 18th so coming up soon : https://www.space.com/mars-rover-perseverance-home-stretch-

18.01.2022 SUPERNOVA SNIPPET: On this day in 1862 Alvan Graham Clark first observed the white dwarf star Sirius B. This discovery of Sirius B, affectionately known as "the Pup", proved an earlier hypotheses by Friedrich Bessel in 1844, that Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky with an apparent magnitude of 1.46, had an unseen companion disturbing its motion. (Image: Alvan Clark and his assistant Carl Lundin (right) alongside the 40-inch lens, 1896).

17.01.2022 Good 5 minute youtube clip on the interetsing implications of possible extra X-rays indicating axions from neutron stars and the strangely tipping gravitational relationship between Titan and Saturn and Neptune explaining the ringed planets tilt : https://www.youtube.com/watch

15.01.2022 How the shadow of a Black hole casts a new tougher light on any therories that aren't Einstein's General Relativity https://www.syfy.com//if-you-want-to-disprove-einstein-it-

14.01.2022 Scott Manley has a good, calm and actually rather apolitical discussion here of what the US election means for the future of its space program here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVKC54H3v78

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12.01.2022 On Japan's planned rover to a Martian moonlet : https://www.space.com/mars-moon-phobos-rover-landing-tests-

11.01.2022 SUPERNOVA SNIPPET: On this day in 1604 ‘Kepler’s Supernova’ was discovered.

10.01.2022 Good video from Scott Manley on the recent news about the chemistry possibly indicative of life in the Cytherean clouds : https://www.youtube.com/watch

08.01.2022 When an "asteroid"becoming a temporary "mini-moon" of our planet is actually an old rocket - specifically the upper stage of a Centaur that launched 'Surveyor II' to our Moon : https://www.abc.net.au//fake-asteroid-nasa-expert/12752996

06.01.2022 Phil Plait on the CK Vulpeculae ILOT( intermediate luminosity optical transient) mystery : https://www.syfy.com//ck-vulpeculae-something-went-boom-bu

05.01.2022 An upcoming lecture being held by our colleagues at the Field Geology Club of South Australia

04.01.2022 Astronomer Paul Curnow chatting on ABC radio earlier today - interview starts at about 13-mins 45-seconds

03.01.2022 Turns out Pioneer 13 may have found signs of phosphine in the Cytheran clouds too : https://www.space.com/life-on-venus-pioneer-13.html

02.01.2022 The solar system seen from solar probes - Parker, SDO & STEREO : https://www.space.com/sun-spacecraft-photograph-string-of-p