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Catch a planetary conjunction, watch Venus skim past the Lagoon Nebula, and observe the First Quarter Moon from November 5 to 12.

... which is why we know the year it happened. Since heresy was such a serious, life-threatening charge, when European Christendom saw what must have been an unavoidably noticeable light in the sky, they deferred to Aristotle, who had pronounced the Universe to be "eternal and unchanging." Hence, this obvious change in the Universe was Somebody Else's Problem - everyone pretended like it wasn't there, rather than risk excommunication for heresy by talking or writing about it. It couldn't have been invisible - even clouds would not have masked its light. But everyone acted as though ...

Close Physicists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have hurled electrons into related particles with all the energy that they could master from the 1960s up until the 2000s. They have made discoveries that won three Nobel Prizes and infused electrons with energy that could reach billions of electronvolts. But now Chinese scientists have used a much powerful tool that helps discovered something in the Crab Nebula that challenges previous theories. High in the mountains of southwest China, a colossal facility picked up two showers of particles produced by a single high-energy be...

The Library acquired a copy of I am team Australia signed by every Australian athlete who attended the 3rd Invictus Games held in Sydney in October 2018. Many of these Australian athletes are also profiled in Unconquered : our wounded warriors, which tells the story of the veterans military service and how sport helps them overcome mental and physical trauma inflicted from their service.  Signs & wonders, a limited edition artists’ book collaboration between American writer Jacques Menasche and Australian photographer Stephen Dupont, who retraced Mark Twain’s 1867 expedition to the Hol...

Top 10 Best Hubble Telescope Pictures Author: Hubble Telescope in orbit around Earth. The exquisite natural artistry that distinguishes each of Hubble's snapshots of the universe exposes the vast wonders of the space, and the myriad treasures that await humankind's exploratory journey into its depths. The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. It is 13 meters long, 2.4 meters wide, and weighs 11 tonnes. It has been observing cosmic structures with its on-board cameras for more than two decades. The Hubble Telescope's discoveries have surpassed our expe...