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Skynotes tells you where to find the brightest planets, constellations and meteor showers in Melbourne, along with the latest astronomical discoveries and Planetarium news.

 

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Skynotes: October 2023

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Skynotes: August 2023

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Four views of the Earth, each with half of the planet shrouded in darkness.

Skynotes: March 2023

An incandescently bright comet moving from right to left across a starry background

Skynotes: February 2023

Comet ZTF in our skies
An hourglass-shaped formation of colouful cosmic gas and dust

Skynotes: January 2023

A star being born: Webb Telescope reveals a protostar

Skynotes: December 2022

Summer Solstice
A reddened moon

Skynotes: November 2022

Total Lunar Eclipse
Neptune appearing as a shimmering orb in the darkness of space with an ethereal halo amid hovering sprites

Skynotes: October 2022

Skynotes: September 2022

Spring Equinox this month
Hubble Space Telescope image of Saturn with an open view of its majestic ring system

Skynotes: August 2022

Saturn is in opposition this month with its beautiful rings in open view from Earth.
Satellite image of the constellations Sagittarius, Scorpius, Centaurus and Crux. Antares, the brighests star in the constellation of Scorpius is circled

Skynotes: July 2022

Vast dust clouds in space

Skynotes: June 2022

Winter Solstice
Phobos, one of Mars' two moons, eclipsing the Sun

Skynotes: May 2022

The active core of Comet 67P vents gas and dust into space as observed from 28km

Skynotes: November 2023

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