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Author: robhunt Created: 4/04/2011 2:01 PM
I'd like to share some of the amazing things I'm learning about in my astronomy course at Swinburne Uni, and also general space science that cross my desk from many sources.

By robhunt on 6/08/2011 10:09 PM

The discovery of antiprotons in the Earth's radiation belt....

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By robhunt on 2/07/2011 12:48 PM

 

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By robhunt on 2/07/2011 10:19 AM

 

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By robhunt on 20/04/2011 3:21 PM

several really cool conjunctions with mercury, venus, mars, jupiter and the moon coming up in may, 2011.  details here: http://www.iceinspace.com.au/63-624-0-0-1-0.html

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By robhunt on 19/04/2011 10:16 AM

a newly discovered asteroid that blinks every four minutes

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By robhunt on 9/04/2011 11:11 PM

i forgot to put my web site's URL in!!  Go to: http://www.giant.net.au/users/hunt/index.htm

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By robhunt on 7/04/2011 11:30 AM

"NASA and co-researchers from the United States, South Korea and Japan have found a new mineral named "Wassonite" in one of the most historically significant meteorites recovered in Antarctica in December 1969."

Ref: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/apr/HQ_11-098_New_Mineral.html

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By robhunt on 6/04/2011 6:11 PM

"ONCE, long ago, we shared the universe with 100 billion galaxies. Now only a single island of stars remains, floating in an unutterably vast, unutterably empty ocean of space. This is a vision of the Milky Way when the cosmos is 10 times older than it is today."  Read more at New Scientist web site (requires free rego)...http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028061.400-empty-universe-cosmology-in-the-year-100-billion.html?

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By robhunt on 6/04/2011 6:00 PM

Spacex (Elon Musk's company) have made a BIG announcement about the next generation of heavy lift rockets.  This is a copy of the Spacex press release...

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