Every morning, when our Sun is shining, our astronomy society president, Monty Leventhal, sets up his two telescopes to make solar...

The Earth is not a sphere ! It is an oblate spheroid. Due to its rotation it bulges out at the equator about 43 km more than at the...

19 May 1910 Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley. Despite the superstitious belief of impending doom no catastrophes occurred....

The planet Mercury has the greatest variation in temperature of all of the planets. During the day the temperature rises to 4300 C but...

28 April 1686 Isaac Newton presents his book Principia to the Royal Society. Widely regarded as one of the greatest works in the history...

Women have contributed to astronomy in many ways in Australia and International Women's Day is a timely reminder that their contributions...

All of Uranus’ moons (NASA image above taken by Voyager) are named after characters from Shakespeare and Alexander Pope plays. For...

13 March 1781 Uranus discovered by Sir William Herschel. It expanded the known boundaries of the solar system becoming the first planet...

"The lowest Sunspot and group count I have ever made...' The solar disc was still clear of Sunspot from last December 2017 to the 4th...

Kepler 7B, a newly found giant exoplanet, has the density of a styrofoam cup. Betelgeuse, a star in the Orion Nebula (photo above) which...