Space and Astronomy News 28th March 2026 NASA defines a new direction Permanent base on the Moon and nuclear-powered rockets to Mars! In what was one of the most pivotal announcements from NASA in recent decades, the US space agency is makin...

Another weekly blog for work. I touch on major NASA announcements about a permanent base on the Moon and nuclear rockets to Mars! Plus could life be found on "rogue moons" and a glimpse of what another solar system being formed. #nasa #bintel #astronomy

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Space and Astronomy News 21st March 2026 Building blocks of life found on another asteroid Just over a year ago we talked about the discovery of some of the building blocks for life being found in samples returned from the asteroid Bennu fro...

My blog for work this week. Building blocks of life found in an asteroid again, Hubble luckily spots a comet breaking up and Saturn scores 11 new moons! #bintel #astronomy #saturn

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Space and Astronomy News 17th January 2026 The star Betelgeuse has a companion Head outside tonight and check out constellation of Orion, with the famous "tea pot" in the centre. One of the "shoulders" of Orion is a bright red star, the superg...

My work blog this week. Lots of stuff going on above our heads! #astronomy #space #bintel

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Space and Astronomy News for the 15th of November 2025 Blue Origin's New Glenn mega rocket has a second launch This time it's sending twin probes to Mars! We've mentioned SpaceX's Starship rocket in this blog over the last couple of years as it progresses...

My BINTEL blog for this week #space #astronomy #BINTEL

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Aurora was on song tonight! 6 second exposure on my Pixel phone. Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains, Australia. #aurora #bluemountains #pixel

Full Moon in and out of the hazy clouds tonight. Was quite "Super". #supermoon #sydneyspring

They’re Ready to Go to Mars

New York Times article on the Mars Society convention #mars #marssociety

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/s...

Catalogue of Exoplanets Sortable and filterable catalogue of the exoplanet discovered so far.

Very cool exoplanet catalogue #exoplanet

exoplanet.eu/catalog/

International Observe The Moon Night is on. Here's what it looks like from my front yard in Rosehill a few moments ago. Just before it started to haze over! #internationalobservethemoonnight #moon #sydneyspring

Got to see this thing up close and personal today.

#Cézanne

Signs of recent life on Mars could be detected using new simple test | Imperial News | Imperial College London Scientists reveal simple way to test for life on Mars using kit already on the Curiosity rover

A new and interesting way to check for signs of life using gear already on the Curiosity rover #mars

www.imperial.ac.uk/news/267393/...

My new car floor mats thanks to FitMyCar . My Datsun is going to look mighty fine cruising around with these! #floormats #nissan350z #datsun #nissan

Spain Extends Invitation for TMT to Consider La Palma Site Spain’s Science Minister invited TMT to consider relocating to La Palma as the project evaluates the most suitable location for its next-generation observatory.

www.tmt.org/news/698

Makes sense! #astronomy

If you have a Bigpond or OzEmail address or when giving your email address you start with "It's all lowercase" #email

Space and Astronomy News for the 12th of July 2025 Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS could be truly ancient More news following on from last week's announcement of the discovery of the third known interstellar visitor to the Solar System, 3I/ATLAS, which ha...

This week's BINTEL blog - the latest comet to visit the Solar System might be ancient, billions of years older than the Sun and the Earth, and some possible ways to navigate in interstellar space. #bintel #astronomy

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Jaycar have released a printed version of their cattle dog after a break of some years. Oh, how I've missed thee! #jaycar #funtimes

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Ever-changing Universe Revealed in First Imagery From NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory | Rubin Observatory From distant stars and galaxies to asteroids whizzing through the Solar System, this next-generation facility unveils its first imagery and brings the night sky to life like never before

Amazing first images from The Vera C. Rubin Observatory

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And so it begins. #musk

Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model It's been known for some time that the web is changing into the Zero-Click Internet, the name for when users no longer need to click on links...

Reckon this will be the case up until folks realise how often AI gets it wrong. #zeroclick

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Space and Astronomy News for the 26th of April 2025 NASA's Lucy spacecraft has an encounter with a strange object: say g'day to Asteroid Donaldjohanson This week, the spacecraft Lucy made its second close up observation of an asteroid.  Astronomers had...

Another work blog. #astronomy #bintel

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Cosmic Distance Calibration xkcd.com/3066

My letter in the SMH this week. #sydney

Changing the subject, I still reckon any salesperson no matter how senior who thinks they *don't* need any more sales skills training is a dill.

Space and Astronomy News for the 15th of March 2025 As always, lots of news about astronomy and space this week. New moons discovered around Saturn. Heaps of them. The Solar System planet with the most spectacular set of rings, the gas giant Saturn, ha...

Work article from last week #bintel #space #astronomy

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The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the ‘Cosmic Shoreline’ | Quanta Magazine Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know where to look — and that means figuring out which planets are likely to have...

Astronomers are searching for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know where to look — and that means figuring out which planets are likely to have atmospheres in the first place. @elisecutts.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/the-road-map...

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Rid yourself of the shackles of #Insiders and the same old restricted, dead-beige discussions from the same old beige talking heads - and watch this instead.

#climatechange

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California takes steps toward officially recognizing Bigfoot California's Assembly Bill 666 seeks to make Bigfoot the state's official cryptid, sparking excitement in Bigfoot communities.

Of course, why not? #Bigfoot

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The Planetary Society Strongly Opposes Mass Layoffs of Probationary… Sudden, indiscriminate layoffs at NASA do not serve the national interests in space leadership.

This is shocking. The damage caused will be next to impossible to repair.

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www.astronomerstelegram.org?read=17041

Long awaited nova?

CanSat: A tiny, can-sized, Raspberry Pi-powered satellite - Raspberry Pi What would you do if you had to create a satellite the size of a drinks can? Space-bound students answer this question with CanSat.

Raspberry Pi satellite. Noice #rasperrypi

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