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September 2020 Southern Sky Guide

September 1, 2020

Geoff Wyatt
What's in the sky this September? Constellations Constellations represent groups of stars that have been given a name and more recently a border. For millennia they have been used as a tool to share significant cultural stories.
A woman wearing goggles performs a science experiment

Onboard the ISS with Flight Controller Andrea Boyd

August 15, 2020

Catherine Polcz
In honour of National Science Week, we spent some time with the brilliant Australian engineer Andrea Boyd. Since 2012 Andrea has lived in Belgium and Germany, working at the European Space Agency's (ESA) European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, where she is a flight controller for the International Space Station (ISS).
August 2020 Sky Chart Sky Guide

August 2020 Southern Sky Guide

August 1, 2020

Melissa Hulbert
What’s in the sky this August? Constellations Constellations represent groupings of stars that have been given a name. For millennia they have been used as a tool for navigation and to share significant cultural stories.
A red planet with a white polar ice cap against a black background.

Mars Mission 2020 with Astrobiologist Bonnie Teece

July 23, 2020

Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
https://youtu.be/A4u2f-Pffsk Guest post by Bonnie Teece Bonnie is an astrobiologist and PhD candidate at UNSW Sydney. Her publishing record includes research on how organic material preserved in hot springs might help us search for organics on Mars and how the same types of techniques aboard Perseverance can be applied to help find ancient life.

The Eye of the Observer

July 16, 2020

Toner Stevenson
Guest post by Toner Stevenson Dr Toner Stevenson is an Honorary Affiliate at the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at The University of Sydney. This blog post is about how the women employed for the first major international astronomy project, called the Astrographic Catalogue, saw themselves, and were seen by others.

Map for Meridian Walk

July 16, 2020

Lily Hibberd
Guest post by Artist in Residence, Lily Hibberd Lily Hibberd is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working with frontiers of time and memory. Her projects are developed in long term place and community-based collaboration, and research with local artists, scientists and historians through combinations of performance, writing, painting, photography, sound, moving image and installation art.

Station 24: Sydney Town Hall Rooftop

July 1, 2020

Lily Hibberd
Guest post by Artist in Residence, Lily Hibberd Lily Hibberd is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working with frontiers of time and memory. Her projects are developed in long term place and community-based collaboration, and research with local artists, scientists and historians through combinations of performance, writing, painting, photography, sound, moving image and installation art.
An illustration depicting the constellations in white against a dark blue circle. Sky Guide

July 2020 Southern Sky Guide

July 1, 2020

Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
What’s in the sky this July? Constellations Constellations represent groupings of stars that have been given a name. For millennia they have been used as a tool to share significant cultural stories.

Station 23: On the abandoned façade

June 30, 2020

Lily Hibberd
Guest post by Artist in Residence, Lily Hibberd Lily Hibberd is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working with frontiers of time and memory. Her projects are developed in long term place and community-based collaboration, and research with local artists, scientists and historians through combinations of performance, writing, painting, photography, sound, moving image and installation art.
An image of a thing slice of a metallic, silvery rock against a grey background.

Meteorites in the Collection

June 30, 2020

Catherine Polcz
Today marks the 112th anniversary of the Tunguska explosion, the worst meteor event in recent history. On 30 June 1908, witnesses saw an asteroid enter the atmosphere and explode, creating an airburst that flattened trees and killed hundreds of reindeer in Siberia.

Station 22: Druitt Place

June 29, 2020

Lily Hibberd
Guest post by Artist in Residence, Lily Hibberd Lily Hibberd is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working with frontiers of time and memory. Her projects are developed in long term place and community-based collaboration, and research with local artists, scientists and historians through combinations of performance, writing, painting, photography, sound, moving image and installation art.

Station 21: under the footbridge on Market Street

June 28, 2020

Lily Hibberd
Guest post by Artist in Residence, Lily Hibberd Lily Hibberd is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working with frontiers of time and memory. Her projects are developed in long term place and community-based collaboration, and research with local artists, scientists and historians through combinations of performance, writing, painting, photography, sound, moving image and installation art.

Station 20: in front of City Mart on Market Street

June 27, 2020

Lily Hibberd
Guest post by Artist in Residence, Lily Hibberd Lily Hibberd is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working with frontiers of time and memory. Her projects are developed in long term place and community-based collaboration, and research with local artists, scientists and historians through combinations of performance, writing, painting, photography, sound, moving image and installation art.

Station 19: Archway next to Vicolo Café

June 26, 2020

Lily Hibberd
Guest post by Artist in Residence, Lily Hibberd Lily Hibberd is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working with frontiers of time and memory. Her projects are developed in long term place and community-based collaboration, and research with local artists, scientists and historians through combinations of performance, writing, painting, photography, sound, moving image and installation art.

Station 18: In archway after Nando’s

June 25, 2020

Lily Hibberd
Guest post by Artist in Residence, Lily Hibberd Lily Hibberd is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working with frontiers of time and memory. Her projects are developed in long term place and community-based collaboration, and research with local artists, scientists and historians through combinations of performance, writing, painting, photography, sound, moving image and installation art.