'The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth … The Rest Of Us Are Going To The Stars!'
David Reneke, one of Australia’s most well known and respected astronomy educators and lecturers, has over 40 years experience in astronomy with links to some of the world’s leading astronomical institutions. David is the Editor for Australia’s Astro-Space News Magazine and is now affiliated as a writer and publicist for the prestigious 'Australasian Science' magazine. David teaches astronomy at college level, is an invited speaker at astronomy conventions throughout Australia, a feature writer for major Australian newspapers, and is a science correspondent for ABC and commercial radio stations. In these weekly radio interviews David regularly appears on over 60 networked stations across Australia with all the latest news and on general astronomy and space discovery issues. David’s audience numbers around 3 million listeners weekly!
David has also been featured on Regional TV stations in NSW, Good Morning America, American MSNBC news, the BBC, Spanish television, Sky News here in Australia and several television documentaries on astronomy. David is a very experienced astronomy and space presenter who has entertained and educated many tens of thousands of people with his engaging shows in venues all around Australia. He also produces a range of educational CD-ROMS on all matters associated with astronomy and space exploration for beginners. Since 2004, David has been touring most of the primary and secondary schools throughout NSW introducing a new interactive astronomy and space education program that he's developed called 'Astronomy Outreach'. 'Austar for Schools' and 'Discovery Science' sponsor David’s outreach program.
During January and February 2008 David toured the USA on assignment, meeting up with Sir Richard Branson in New York and witnessed the unveiling of Branson’s brand new concept spacecraft ‘Spaceship-2’ heralding in private space travel in Philadelphia. David also toured the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida and was an invited guest to Buzz Aldrin’s home in Beverly Hills, California ,where he interviewed the second man to walk on the Moon. Throughout 2009 – 2010 David will be conducting a series of specialised astronomy/space talks interstate and overseas and heading a number of tours to New Zealand with Grand Pacific Tours Aust.
SPACE – 'The Final Frontier'
Space is indeed the final frontier. Even from the confines of our tiny planet, we have been able to discover much about our immediate neighborhood and thanks to technology, we have discovered mysteries that extend into the vastness beyond. Our technology has taken us to the moon and someday, perhaps, our technology will allow us to follow our imaginations to Mars and beyond. Through these pages we'll highlight some of the information we have discovered about space from planets to galaxies, from the sun to supernovae, from Apollo to ISS - and a lot more in between . I really hope you find this site informative. Just click on any of my "Space Sites" to check out the information we have researched, and the things I'm into. If you like you can subscribe to my newsletter, comment on what you read here (be as critical as you like, but not nasty, OK?) or browse the many astronomy items on sale now and ones on the way.
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JUST SOME OF THE STORIES WE'RE COVERING THIS WEEK
Pluto-philes (and astronomers, too) have always bemoaned the fact that the best image of the principal dwarf planet wase just a fuzzy, pixelized haze. Bemoan no more. The most detailed look to date of the entire surface of Pluto has been constructed from hundreds of images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The images were taken during 2002 to 2003, and it took four years of computer crunching and software tweaking to create the global images. Surprisingly, the images show Pluto changed noticeably. Read more …
Moon-Junk May Be Preserrved As Historical Resource.
When the Apollo 11 astronauts blasted off from the moon, they left behind not just the small steps of men but a giant pile of equipment and junk for all of mankind. Some of the 5,000 pounds of stuff Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin abandoned at Tranquility Base was purposeful: a seismic detector to record moonquakes and meteorite impacts; a laser-reflection device to make some precise distance measurements between the Earth and moon; a U.S. flag and commemorative plaque. Some was unavoidable: Apollo 11's lunar module descent stage wasn't designed to be carted back home, for instance. Read more …
Griffin – Nasa CAN Afford Top Go Back To The Moon
Ex-NASA boss Mike Griffin says we can do three Apollo-scale projects over the next 50 years without increasing the NASA budget. It sounds too good to be true – and it is. Griffin's analysis of NASA's past relies on questionable economics and his vision of the future includes political and technical impossibilities. The March 14 2007 issue of Aviation Week contained an article by NASA Administrator Mike Griffin which apparently is the most detailed statement yet of his long-range plans. In this article and related press interviews, Griffin makes a case that NASA is not really as underfunded as many critics say, and that the US can afford three major space projects on the scale of Project Apollo over the next 50 years. Read more …
Wondering What Causes a Ring Around The Moon? Here's the answer.
The moon can produce interesting optical effects when conditions are right. The most common of which are moon rings, moon bows, which are similar to rainbows, moon dogs and moon pillars. A rainbow is produced when sunlight is refracted through water droplets – A similar effect is produced when moon light refracts through ice crystals. left is a photograph of this interesting phenomena. The ring around the Moon is caused by the refraction of Moonlight (which of course is reflected sunlight) from ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. The shape of the ice crystals results in a focusing of the light into a ring. Read more …
Iran Launches Rat and Turtles Into Space
Iran hailed last Wednesday the successful launch of a home-built satellite carrying a rat, turtles and worms, amid Western concerns Tehran is using its nuclear and space industries to develop atomic and ballistic weapons. Iranian state television said the Kavoshgar 3 (Explorer) rocket carried a capsule containing "live animals" — marking Iran's first experiment in sending living creatures into space.Television footage showed a white rat on its back in a container with tubes protruding from its mouth. Two other containers contained respectively several dark worms and small turtles. Read more …
Kansas 5-Year-Old Draws UFO After Reporting 'Round Plane With Bolts'
A Kansas parent is wondering if their 5-year-old's comments about "a round plane with bolts" and subsequent drawing could be an actual UFO sighting, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database. The January 25 event occurred as the parent was driving their child home from school. The child made the comment about something she saw in the sky, but the parent, who was driving, was unable to view the object.Two days later, the parent asked the child to make drawings of what she saw. See ima left .The following is the unedited and as yet uninvestigated report filed with MUFON. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. Read more …
India Looks To Global Effort For Manned Mars Mission
As a leading space-faring nation, India with its low-cost but high-end launch vehicle technology will be a part of the international consortium for the manned mission to Mars. The maiden human space flight to Mars would be a global mission through a consortium by 2030. 'Manned mission to Mars will be a global effort and will be undertaken by a consortium of space-faring nations,' Indian Space Research Organisation chairman K. Radhakrishnan told reporters. Noting that international collaboration and cooperation would be the order of the day in future space exploratory missions, Radhakrishnan said the global endeavour would be to put a man on the red planet by 2030. Read more …
The Planets of Alpha Centauri: The Hunt for a Pandora
James Cameron’s new movie Avatar depicts a gas giant with a habitable moon, Pandora, around it. Could there be real habitable planets orbiting among the three stars of the Alpha Centauri system? What are the odds that a "Pandora," really exists? With the diminishing odds that our solar system supports advanced forms of life, the nearest stars become ever more attractive candidates for discovery. And among the stars with possible habitable planets is the Alpha Centauri triple star system, the closest star system at only 4.37 light years from our Sun. Both Alpha Centauri A and B — stars very similar to our own Sun. Read more …
How Can I Find South Using The Southern Cross?
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Imagine a line joining the two stars at the ‘head’ and the ‘foot’ of the cross. Extend the line out another four lengths from the foot of the cross – that’s the South Celestial Pole (SCP). Then look straight down from the SCP to the horizon – you've found south! Method 2. Another slighty trickier – but more accurate – way of finding south is to use the Southern Cross AND the Pointer stars from the neighbouring constellation Centaurus. Read more … 
u can find the Southern Cross – Crux by its astronomical name – you can easily find the South Celestial Pole (SCP) – an imaginary point in the sky directly above south.
Self-Doubt Plagues Female Astronomers
Women in US astronomy graduate programmes are considerably more likely than men to fear being exposed for a lack of astronomy knowledge or ability, according to the American Institute of Physics (AIP) in College Park, Maryland, and the American Astronomical Association (AAS). The results, part of the first ever longitudinal study of astronomy graduate students in the United States, raise concerns that these fears have been driving women to leave the field in large numbers. Initial study results were released at a 4 January AAS meeting session in Washington DC.These report that almost 60% of female respondents agreed or strongly agreed with the statement “Sometimes I am afraid others will discover how much knowledge or ability I lack”. Read more …
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