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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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| School Holiday Schedule at the Planetarium |
| Planetarium News: 29.06.09, 10:16:56 by mib |
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The Planetarium is currently on its school holiday schedule. This schedule will apply from 30 June to 13 July inclusive. Please see the Program Times page for further details of the schedule.
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| Giant Eruption Reveals 'Dead' Star |
| Astronomy: 23.06.09, 12:22:19 by mib |
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When an enormous eruption travelling for many thousands of years across space has found its way to Earth, astronomers studied this blast with ESA’s XMM-Newton and Integral space observatories, and discovered a dead star belonging to a rare group, ...
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| Astronomers Catch a Star Being Revved-Up |
| CSIRO: 22.05.09, 15:32:43 by mib |
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Researchers have witnessed a star being transformed into an object that spins at almost 600 times a second using telescopes in the USA and the Netherlands, and CSIRO's Parkes telescope in Australia. PSR J1023+0038, is a millisecond pulsar, a ...
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| Recent Images |
| Astronomy: 27.04.09, 15:27:37 by mib |
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There have been a number of excellent images released lately by many of the current missions. Following are links to some recent releases.
Chaotic terrain in Ariadnes Colles
Details and images, taken by the Mars Express High ...
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| School Holiday Schedule at the Planetarium |
| Planetarium News: 15.04.09, 09:44:01 by mib |
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The Planetarium is currently on its school holiday schedule. This schedule will apply from 14 April to 19 April inclusive. Please see the Program Times page for further details of the schedule.
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| Stellar Explosion Dissected |
| Astronomy: 06.04.09, 16:31:21 by mib |
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One of the brightest gamma-ray bursts ever seen was captured by Integral. The blast from an exploding star arrived at Earth on 19 December 2004. ESA's Integral satellite recorded the entire event, providing information for what may prove to be one ...
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| Public Observing Night Cancelled |
| Planetarium News: 04.04.09, 16:18:00 by mib |
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The public observing night planned for tonight at the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium has been cancelled due to poor weather. The Planetarium regrets the short notice but held the decision in case the weather had improved.
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| Ice Covered Martian North Pole |
| Solar System: 09.03.09, 16:44:56 by mib |
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Images taken on 29 July 2008 by ESA’s Mars Express orbiter show the region of Rupes Tenuis on the Martian north pole to be laden in snow. Rupes Tenuis is located at the southern edge of the Martian north polar cap, approximately 5500 km northeast of ...
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| Stars Forced to Relocate Near the Southern Fish |
| Astronomy: 04.03.09, 13:29:34 by mib |
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A new image from the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows three galaxies locked in a gravitational tug-of-war that may result in the eventual demise of one of them. About 100 million light-years away, in the ...
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| Most Extreme Gamma-ray Blast Yet |
| Astronomy: 20.02.09, 15:28:07 by mib |
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The first gamma-ray burst to be seen in high-resolution from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is one for the record books. The blast had the greatest total energy, the fastest motions and the highest-energy initial emissions ever ...
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