Blogs

Firstly, I’ve been absent from this blog for the last couple of weeks so an apology is in order to regular readers. One week I was crook with one of those nasty little lurgies that are going around at the moment and the next week I was up to my ... Continue Reading »

Direct from the Perth Observatory and NASA livestreaming, the transit was broadcast to the world live via the RiAus website. You can listen to the audio clips about the significance and history of the transits from RiAus Director Dr Paul Willis and Curator of Astronomy at the Sydney Observatory Dr ... Continue Reading »

After an education that included a year at Woodville Primary School in Adelaide and a PhD from Sydney University, Nick Lomb joined Sydney Observatory in 1979. As Curator of Astronomy he has organised numerous exhibitions at the Observatory and at the Powerhouse Museum with the last one being From Earth ... Continue Reading »

What an amazing year in astronomy! We will have a peak in solar activity as the Sun’s magnetic poles reverse, the asteroid Eros 433 passed as close to the Earth as it ever has and Venus will pass between us and the Sun for the last time in the next ... Continue Reading »

Max Coltheart has a PhD from the University of Sydney and a DSc from Macquarie University. He is the creator of the internationally renowned Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, an Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence. Professor Coltheart's work involves the computational modelling of normal and impaired ... Continue Reading »