Space Stuff

Alex Lay from The Australasian Dark Sky Alliance explains the effects of light pollution and how we help fight it –  If you look up at the sky above you…

Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars and sometimes they abruptly increase their rotation rate. This sudden change of spin rate is called a “glitch” and I was part of a…

It’s easy to forget when we’re imaging in the backyard that the things we’re doing – polar aligning, focussing etc are exactly the same things professional observatories and even space…