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Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Astronomers have found a mysterious new type of the most powerful explosions in the universe since the Big Bang.
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Astronomers have witnessed the rare event of a black hole waking up from a decades-long slumber to feed on a planet-sized object in a galaxy 47 million light years away.
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
StarStuff Podcast New evidence the Milky Way galaxy is cannibalising a smaller dwarf galaxy. Also; is a comet about to crash into Mars? And how comets could have seeded Earth with the precursors for life.
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Monster outflows of charged particles stretching above and below the centre of the Milky Way, could contain tantalising evidence of mysterious dark matter, say scientists.
Tuesday, 5 March 2013 36
Ask an Expert Is the speed of light constant throughout the universe? Has it changed over time? And what happens when it reaches a black hole?
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
StarStuff Podcast Signs of Saturn's birthplace raises new questions about planetary migration theory. Also; smallest planet yet detected, and Higgs boson calculations predict the end of the universe.
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
StarStuff Podcast Over a 1000 people injured and millions in damage as a meteor airbursts over Russia. Also; could an asteroid impact site in outback Australia be linked to the late Devonian mass extinction event? And discovery of a source of cosmic rays.
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
StarStuff Podcast Time to rewrite the text books on planetary evolution. Also; new CSIRO observations support Big Bang theory, and South Korea launches its first rocket into space.
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
StarStuff Podcast New data shows black holes grow faster in smaller galaxies. Also; an ancient lake discovered on Mars, and icebergs found floating on Titan's seas.
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Existing theories on the relationship between the size of a galaxy and its central black hole are wrong according to a new Australian study.
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
StarStuff Podcast Scientists discover a string of quasars over four billion light-years long. Also; forget Star Wars special effects, what would you really see if you travelled faster than the speed of light? And bushfires damage Siding Spring Observatory.
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
StarStuff Podcast Astronomers discover a microquasar in Andromeda. Also; the truely amazing Nile River of Saturn's moon Titan, and will the world end on December 21st? NASA says no.
Friday, 14 December 2012
A microquasar produced by a black hole feeding on a star, has been detected in a nearby galaxy for the first time.
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
StarStuff Podcast Discovery boosts theory that Venus may be geologically alive. Also; water found on Mercury, and Curiosity scoops up organic molecules on Mars.
Thursday, 29 November 2012
Astronomers have discovered a massive blast coming from a black hole, five times more powerful than any previously seen.