Beautiful experiments in science

Posted: 28 Apr 10 | We normally associate beauty with works of art and music, you might say and many of my non-physicist friends have said so. Well, I think they are wrong because physics experiments can be considered beautiful and elegant. Not only that, they have profoundly changed how we view the universe we live in. |

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Need to return paintings

Posted: 14 Dec 09 | The American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land that took place about sixty years ago was remarkable. |

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The flight from science

Posted: 11 Nov 09 | Science is seen by many of them as boring and uninspiring. Their teachers are failing them by not imparting scientific knowledge in an exciting and motivating way. |

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Galaxies

Posted: 20 Oct 09 | Far away from the city lights when you look up into the night sky you can see a broad white band spread across the sky from one horizon to the other. It is as if a farmer had thrown his bucket of milk across the sky. |

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The sun and moon

Posted: 09 Oct 09 | In most Aboriginal stories the Sun is a female and hence occupies a minor place in the stories of the Aboriginal people as compared to the Moon which is considered to be a male. |

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Aboriginal astronomy - Dreamtime emu

Posted: 29 Sep 09 | The emu is one of these. It is not only seen in the sky by the Aborigines but is also carved on trees, engraved in the rocks, carved on boomerangs and illustrated in paintings. |

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Australian women astronomers

Posted: 18 Sep 09 | You may well be surprised to hear that the first woman astronomer in Australia was an Aboriginal woman by the name of Yarrum Parpur Tarneen of the Moporr clan in Victoria. |

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The new space race

Posted: 31 Aug 09 | The competition to find the first earth like planet has begun in earnest. My prediction is that by 2050 we will have found an earth like planet. |

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Australia's great comet hunter, John Tebbutt

Posted: 13 Aug 09 | Born in 1834, John Tebbutt observed his first comet at the age of nineteen from his father’s 200 acre farm in Windsor, NSW. |

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Aboriginal astronomy

Posted: 29 Jun 09 | It is most probable that long before other civilisations had named the stars and constellations that we see in the night sky, the Aboriginal people of Australia had given them names. |

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Was it E.T.?

Posted: 02 Jun 09 | In the early hours of the morning in December 2008, I detected a mysterious signal from outer space at the Campbelltown UWS Observatory. |

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Starry night

Posted: 20 May 09 | If you wish to see the wonderful celestial objects of that adorn the winter night sky come along to the astronomy night to be held at the Observatory at the University of Western Sydney Campus in Campbelltown. |

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Stealing the night sky

Posted: 13 May 09 | It may come as a surprise to you that the Aboriginal people of Australia have been observing the night sky for over 40 000 years and they were Australia's first custodians of our national heritage of the starry night. |

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