arcadeparade:

From the National Archives of Australia: “In July 1979 the US Skylab space station, in a poor state of repair and with its orbit decaying, spiralled back to earth and crashed into the Indian Ocean off Western Australia. Several fragments from the wreck fell in the Western Australian outback, and became popular finds. This image shows a piece of the debris on display at the 1979 Miss Universe contest held in Perth.”

ursulasteinberg:

In the backstreets of North Melbourne.

Melbourne Space Cat.

abcstarstuff:

Aboriginal Astronomers

I’ve just put together a new story for ABC Science looking at a new study that’s found Aboriginal dreamtime stories were linking meteorites to impact craters and the origins of life, thousands of years before modern science.

For full details go to: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/03/15/3160848.htm

image….Dreaming stories like Kandimalal (Wolfe Creek Crater) and the Rainbow Serpent told of impact craters being caused by meteors long before western science worked it out (Source: Boxer Milner, a Djaru Elder from Billiluna, Western Australia. /Image reproduced with permission, courtesy of Peggy Reeves Sanday)

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Queensland Coast Feeling Yasi’s Fury NASA image acquired Feb. 2, 2011 at 03:35 UTC Satellite: Aqua.

Tropical Cyclone Bianca off Western Australia (by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) - Space Rules

The Great Barrier Reef, Australia: Australian researchers have discovered that the European Space Agency satellite Envisat Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument can detect coral bleaching down to 10 metres deep. - Space Rules

NASA Blue Marble 2007 East (by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Reto Stöckli)

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asunburntcountry:

indefensible:

In 1957, Denis Cox - then 12 years of age - sent a letter to Australian scientists outlining his designs for a rocket to rival that of the Soviets.

Now, some 52 years later, he’s going to get a reply. Click through for a story that will charm your inner nerd child.

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Shark Habitats From Space : Discovery Channel

This is Shark Bay in my home state of Western Australia and it’s teeming with sharks.

This satellite image was taken by NASA’s Terra satellite in 2004, capturing the blue-green bloom of phytoplankton glowing in Shark Bay.

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Parkes Radio Telescope in the early 1960s. Parkes, New South Wales, Australia. (via CSIRO)

‘From 8 minutes and 51 seconds after the TV was switched on (and some 6 minutes and 42 seconds after the first step), the world witnessed the historic 2 1/2 hour Apollo 11 moonwalk from pictures received by the Parkes Radio Telescope’ (CSIRO).

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isay:

This bad ass is the British attempt to enter the space race. It’s called the Black Arrow and was a project that might have brought my father to Australia, had it not been for my mother not wanting to leave the UK. Curses. File:Black Arrow (150021646).jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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