astropixie

This may seem like old news to some of you now, but earlier this year I moved across the world, back to the USA to the sonoran desert of Tu...

During one of our recent walks around the neighborhood, a nice old man stopped Ida and I for a chat. When I mentioned her name, he instantl...

the one, the only, ARETHA FRANKLIN !   this brought me to tears - so pure, so passionate, so powerful.  a great way to say goodbye to 2015....

My unofficial hack at last week's . Astronomy 7 conference in sydney was to perform a song i wrote recently called Sky Schemes .  Luck...

A new video from AAO ! "A 2dF night at the AAT" assembles 14 time-lapse sequences taken at the 4-metre Anglo-Australian Telesc...

I published this article at The Conversation last week, reproduced here for your enjoyment :) Original article link .  Seeing the Univer...

later today, the new horizons space craft will fly by pluto at a distance of only 12,500 km - its closest approach is about 1 earth away. ...

This article is originally published for Inspiring Australia in early April 2015.  Giving a presentation is your opportunity to share ...

i'm pleased to finally be able to share with you a project i've been working on for a while! a lot of my research depends on coll...

An AMAZING timelapse video of our Sun, our star, made of 5 years worth of high resolution images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Wo...

for a great intro to all things astronomy, tune into this crash course  youtube series about astronomy , hosted by my friend , the bad astr...

i recently finished reading Kurt Vonnegut's second novel,  The Sirens of Titan .  overall, an enjoyable read. i like how vonnegut plays...

it was 2 years ago today that aaron swartz ended his life. the friend who recommended watching this documentary about him - the internet...

This April 24th marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope!?!   hard to believe the old girl has lasted this lo...

i'll be posting about the exciting robot landing on a comet for the first time ever very soon, but i want to quickly address an aspect...

Physicist Brian Cox visited NASA’s Space Power Facility in Cleveland, Ohio (!!!) to perform a fantastic science experiment! did anyone e...

Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will pass within 139,500 km (86,000 miles) of the surface of Mars at 5:51 tomorrow morning (Monday 20 Oct, ...

i'm SO EXCITED to finally get to reveal this short film " steve and the stars " to everyone. i worked with the bluebottle gro...

for the three eclipse visible in australia this year, geoff sims ( beneath beyond ) managed to rush away from most clouds to film each even...

i've been working to launch an AAO YouTube channel and guess what - it finally happened!  our first instalment is a new time-lapse vide...