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A huge day of racing will kick off the carnival in Rockhampton. Horses Tony McMahon Premium Content Subscriber only Rockhampton’s Capricornia Yearling Sale Racing Carnival gets off to a dream start at Callaghan Park racecourse on Friday with a massively expanded nine race TAB program. By sheer weight of horse-starting declarations when 122 were penned-in for the original eight race card, officials had no choice but to willingly expand the program to that of nine races. This came into fruition when 22 horses from as far afield as Warwick, Taroom, Brisbane...

April 5, 2021 An international team of astronomers has mapped a piece of the cosmic web without using bright quasars for the first time. They did it by turning a powerful instrument to a single region of the sky for hundreds of hours. This image looks in the direction of our constellation Fornax the Furnace, to a time 2 billion years after the Big Bang. Each point of light is a galaxy. You can see a filament between the galaxies, tracing the path of the cosmic web. See the full image, below. Image (c) ESO / NASA/ Roland Bacon et al. In recent decades, astronomers have begun speaking of the l...

Champion jockey wins whip ban reduction Golden Slipper-winning jockey Tommy Berry had a big win after his whip penalty was reduced on appeal. Horses by Ray Thomas 1st Apr 2021 7:15 PM Golden Slipper-winning jockey Tommy Berry is free to ride at the $10 million Derby-Doncaster meeting after his two-week penalty for excessive whip use was reduced on appeal. Berry was suspended until April 14 but lodged an appeal with the Racing NSW Appeals panel against the severity of his penalty. The champion jockey succeeded in having h...

  “Hubble isn’t just a satellite; it’s about humanity’s quest for knowledge,” said astronaut and former NASA Chief Scientist, John M. Grunsfeld about the iconic space telescope. Looking at Hubble’s ground-breaking “Deep Field” images that show the most distant galaxies that can be observed in visible light leaves us feeling like something else is going about its business out there. Transformed Our View of Where We Are “We are born into the world like actors who are placed on a stage without a script. The Hubble Space Telescope has transformed our understanding of that stage...

A new mural official unveiled in downtown Orlando on Thursday evening is just the start of making downtown an even more appealing place to visit, officials say.