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The International Space Station is passing overhead this week. Join Leah to learn where to look, at what time, to see this massive orbital laboratory from your backyard. It's been a bus…

Perfect for anyone heading out of town for the summer break, as you also move away from the light pollution of the city, revealing the majestic night sky in all its splendour. Learn about the Milky W…

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NASA is sending its next flagship observatory to space. After a troubled development, the James Webb Space Telescope is ready for launch on 25 December 2021. JWST is a next generation t…

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No compass? No star chart? No problem! Join Leah to discover how to find your way around the night sky using just your eyes, your hands, and a few handy pieces of knowledge.

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This week, we're taking a closer look at our nearest celestial neighbour, the moon! We will also learn about Artemis 1 and the Space Launch System and what they mean for the future of h…

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This week we're taking a look at Jupiter and Saturn in our night sky and learning about the upcoming journey of Lucy, a NASA spacecraft that will be visiting asteroids near Jupiter to l…

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This week, we’re taking a look at Venus, the brightest planet in our sky – so bright, it’s often the first object we see as the sun sets, and the last one we see as the sun rises. We’ll…

A walking tour of the solar system

Part 2: Jupiter to Neptune

This week on the Audio Guide to the Galaxy, we're continuing our space walk. We'll be exploring the 4.2 billion km expanse of the solar s…

A walking tour of the solar system

Part 1: Mercury to Mars

This week on the Audio Guide to the Galaxy, we're going for a walk. No, really - we're walking through the inner planets of our solar system…

On Wednesday this week, 26 May, we're heading outside to spot a cosmic coincidence in the evening sky - a lunar eclipse. Just after sunset, the moon will start to pass into the Earth's shadow, and by…

This week, we're getting up before dawn to try catching a glimpse of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. It's a cosmic lightshow that only comes around once a year, as fragments of Halley's comet streak t…

This week on the Audio Guide to the Galaxy, we spot the International Space Station as it passes over Perth - not just once, but a several times over the next few days. This orbiting lab is the only …

This week on the Audio Guide to the Galaxy, we’ll be exploring a great pattern in our night sky – Argo Navis. We’ll talk about how to find this mighty ship and some of the remarkable stars that it fe…

This week on the Audio Guide to the Galaxy, we’re taking a look at some of the deepest, most distant parts of our sky. We can only see these from outside the city, so this episode is a little bonus f…

This week, we get a little refresher on our stargazing skills and the Southern Cross, then spiral out to meet some of the other constellations in our southern sky.

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This week, we're finding the Crux, the Southern Cross - one of the most famous patterns in the southern sky - and using it to find our way down here on Earth as well.

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This week, we're using Taurus and the Pleiades to tell a story about the life cycle of stars.

You can listen to this episode any night this week, and the stars we're looking at will be visible all Su…

This week, we're finding Sirius in the night sky - and in some stories as well.

You can listen to this episode any night this week, and Sirius and Canis Major will be visible all summer.

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This week, we're spotting the constellation of Orion, and taking a look at how stars form.

You can listen to this episode any night this week, and Orion will be visible all summer

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