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Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium's Unofficial Web
More than one million visitors have attended star shows in the Planetarium's Cosmic Skydome which is located in the picturesque Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mt Coot-tha. The entrance is off Mt Coot-tha Road, Toowong, Brisbane, Australia. Brisbane Planetarium - the place to learn about the southern sky and much more. For more information about the planetarium, or astronomy and space science, please explore this site. The planetarium's phone number is (07)-3403-2578.
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| The Planetaruim is closed Until March 8, 2010 |
| Planetarium News: 02.02.10, 14:09:04 by mib |
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Due to major upgrades and maintenance work, the Planetarium will be closed from Monday, 25 January to Monday, 8 March inclusive.
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| Inside Look at International Space Station |
| International Space Station: 02.02.10, 14:04:58 by mib |
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NASA now provides streaming video live from the International Space Station's laboratories giving internet viewers an inside look at astronauts working in space. The internal views are available during all crew duty hours.
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| 2010 ISS Calendar |
| International Space Station: 07.01.10, 10:41:31 by mib |
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To celebrate the 10th anniversary of people continuously living aboard the International Space Station, NASA is providing a special 2010 calendar to teachers and the public. The calendar highlights the work being done on the International Space ...
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| Inside the Dark Heart of the Eagle |
| Astronomy: 17.12.09, 16:12:41 by mib |
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The Herschel image shows a dark cloud 1000 light-years away in the constellation Aquila, the Eagle revealing an unseen stellar nursery with surprising amounts of activity. It is estimated that some 700 newly-forming stars are crowded into filaments ...
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| Beauty of the Proplyds in the Orion Nebula |
| Astronomy: 17.12.09, 16:01:00 by mib |
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The longest single Hubble Space Telescope project ever, which was dedicated to the topic of star and planet formation, has released a collection of 30 new images of embryonic planetary systems in the Orion Nebula. Known as proplyds, or ...
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| Images of Both Martian Moons |
| Solar System: 14.12.09, 09:48:00 by mib |
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For the very first time, the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos have been caught on camera together. ESA's Mars Express orbiter took the images last month. Apart from their 'wow' factor, these unique images will help the HRSC team validate and refine ...
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| Image of the Crescent Earth |
| Space Exploration: 13.11.09, 12:17:13 by mib |
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The OSIRIS instrument on ESA's Rosetta comet chaser captured this spectacular image of our home planet as the spacecraft approached Earth for the third and final swingby. The closest approach of the Rosetta craft is due today at 07:45 UT.
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| Nullarbor Fireball Cameras Find Rare Meteorite |
| CSIRO: 21.09.09, 11:01:51 by mib |
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Using cameras which capture fireballs streaking across the night sky and sophisticated mathematics, a world-wide team of scientists have managed to find not only a tiny meteorite on the vast Nullarbor Plain, but also determine its orbit and the ...
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| Hubble's first images since Servicing |
| Space Observatories: 10.09.09, 16:01:09 by mib |
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With the release of observations from four of its six operating science instruments Astronomers today declared the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope a fully rejuvenated observatory ready for a new decade of exploration.
Hubble's suite of new ...
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| Celestial Rosetta Stone? |
| Astronomy: 10.09.09, 15:46:24 by mib |
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ESA's XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope has uncovered a white dwarf star, circling a companion star, which could explode into a particular kind of supernova in a few million years. These supernovae are used as beacons to measure cosmic distances ...
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The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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