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Chatting With Todd Lasance

At Supanova on the Gold Coast we caught up with Todd Lasance...

At Supanova on the Gold Coast we caught up with Todd Lasance, JD on the latest Paramount+ series NCIS: Sydney. He’s also starred in such Aussie classics as Rescue Special Ops and Home and Away as well as The Vampire Diaries and The Flash. We chat at his signing table with thanks to Australia’s largest pop culture expo.

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Unlocking Supernova Stardust Secrets

Meteorites not from our solar system...

The discovery was made using a technique called atom probe tomography which revealed the particle had a ratio of magnesium isotopes distinct from anything in our solar system. The discovery was made by lead author Dr Nicole Nevill and colleagues during her PhD studies at Curtin, now working at the Lunar and Planetary Science Institute in collaboration with NASA’s Johnson Space Centre. Clues…

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Telescope Pair Turn Speed Camera In World-First Measurement

Faster-than-light speed camera...

The research has been published in Nature. Neutron stars, like black holes, have huge gravitational pulls. When pulling matter from a nearby star, their extreme environments cause the occasional thermonuclear explosion and constant jets of matter shooting into space. Not much is known about these jets, including their composition and speed.

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Twin Stars Reveal Planet Eating Habits

Gobbling up planets...

An international research team studied twin stars that should have identical composition. But, in about eight percent of cases, they differ, perplexing astronomers. Led by ASTRO 3D researchers the team has found that the difference is due to one of the twins devouring planets or planetary material. These findings have been made possible thanks to a large dataset collected with the 6.5-metre…

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JWST Reveals A Massive Ancient Galaxy That Challenges Our Models of the Young Universe

Adjusting our early universe thinking...

They suggest stars developed much faster and more efficiently than we thought. They used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the massive object as it was 510 million years after the Big Bang, making it around 13 billion years ago. The observations in the current paper show a galaxy consisting of several groups with two components in the main group and a long tail, suggesting an ongoing…

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First Instruments Selected By NASA For Artemis

Crops on the moon...

Once installed near the lunar South Pole, the three instruments will collect valuable scientific data about the lunar environment, the lunar interior, and how to sustain a long-duration human presence on the Moon. The instruments will address three Artemis science objectives: understanding planetary processes, understanding the character and origin of lunar polar volatiles, and investigating and…

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Kanyini Completes Critical Testing

Next stop - orbit!

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49 New Galaxies Found in Under 3 Hours

That has to be a record!

Led by Dr Marcin Glowacki from the Curtain University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in Western Australia, the study aimed to understand star-forming gases in a single radio galaxy.

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Diving Into The Icarus Maneuver With The Original Writer

The original director is here to discuss this week's fan film release...

Axanar have released their second of two short films as per the settlement agreement. The first was plagued with issues including an alleged forgery on a talent release form, the second – released just a few days ago – is actually an unoriginal idea produced in contrast to the original director’s vision. On this edition, that original director – Robert Myer Burnett – is beaming in to discuss how…

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Kanyini Survives Environmental Testing As 49 Galaxies Found in Just Three Hours!

We're at Lot Fourteen this week - the hub for all things Australian space!

49 New Galaxies found in under three hours… SmartSat and Inovor’s satellite survives rigorous testing at Mt Stromlo, and unlocking supernova stardust secrets… It’s Wednesday the 3rd of April 2024, these are the science and space headlines we’re following on Talkin’ Science.

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Russia and China's Lunar Nuclear Reactor

They're not the only ones thinking of the nuclear option...

Director General of Russia’s Space Agency Yury Borisov told Russian state media that the project would be undertaken without the presence of humans and that the necessary technology to make it happen is almost ready. Nuclear powered rockets are also set to be used to transfer cargo to the lunar outpost, but the necessary construction methods for those are yet to be finalised. NASA is…

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#lunar outpost #moon base #nuclear power

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Betelgeuse's Rapid Spin Could Be An Illusion

Is it spinning really fast? Or are the readings been thrown off by convection?

It’s just blazing by so fast, faster than a star it’s size should be able to – at least to our understanding of astrophysics. But a team at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics may have the answer… it could be an illusion whipped by by the violently boiling surface. With a diameter greater than 1 billion kilometers, and a brightness that dominates the northern hemisphere’s night sky,…

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#betelgeuse #red giant #star

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Deep Sea Circulation Driven By Mars

Does Earth have a 2.5 million year climate cycle?

Research from the University of Sydney and Sorbonne University used the geological record of the deep sea to discover a connection between the orbits of Earth and Mars, past global warming patterns and the speeding up of deep ocean circulation. They discovered a surprising 2.4-million-year cycle where deep currents wax and wane which, in turn, is linked to periods of increased solar energy and a…

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#climate change #gulf stream #mars

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Europa May Not Be As Habitable As Previously Thought

There's not enough oxygen production happening...

Researchers in the United States and Europe have found the icy moon produces less oxygen than original estimates. In the past, astronomers thought that the liquid ocean of the moon could produce oxygen and hydrogen via a process triggered by radiation breaking up the icy surface, but the researchers of this new study say that there might only be around 12 kilograms of oxygen being produced per…

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#europa #jupiter

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Next Generation Solar Panels Fly To Space

Flexible means more configuration options...

Doctor Anthony Chesman, CSIRO’s Renewable Energy Systems Group Leader explains the significance of these cells which are on board Australia’s largest private satellite, Optimus 1 which flew on board Space X’s Transporter 10 mission last week. Australia’s national science agency is exploring the potential of printed flexible solar cells as a reliable energy source for future space endeavours, in…

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#csiro #solar power

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SKA-Low's First Antenna Installed

One down, 129,999 to go...

With the first of more than 130,000 two-metre-tall, Christmas tree-shaped antennas being installed last week in Western Australia. They’ll make up the SKA-Low radio telescope and the first ten field technicians have begun their work of installing the massive array which, when complete, will see the SKA-Low telescope enable scientists to explore the first billion years after the so-called dark…

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#ska-low #square kilometer array

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Gilmour Space Awarded Orbital Launch License

Now they can fly...

It’s been a two, almost three, year journey to get to this point and while we’re seeing investment in launch facilities across the country, Gilmour Space’s Abbott Point complex is owned and operated by the Gold Coast-based space business. And as we continue to ramp up our coverage of sovereign rocket launch capabilities we know that Australia’s prime position to polar and equatorial orbit is…

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#Bowen Orbital Launch Complex #Gilmour Space