The Adelaide Supernovas

SUPERNOVA SNIPPET: On this day in 1964 – the first Europa rocket was launched from the Woomera Rocket Range in South Australia.

A New Map of Stars Shows That the Small Magellanic Cloud is Expanding A multi-year survey of millions of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud shows that the dwarf galaxy is expanding rather than rotating. This is due to the influence of its larger neighbour, the Large Magellanic Cloud.

SUPERNOVA FLASHBACK: Our speaker in June 2010 was Adelaide Planetarium Lecturer Martin Lewicki, who spoke on 'spectroscopy'.

Tickets for the Adelaide Science event of 2026 are now available online!! Star of 'Inside Nature's Giants' Professor Joy Reidenberg live in Adelaide! This event is FREE - but book now to avoid disappointment!

Beauty IN the Beast: Comparative Anatomy of Sound Production Science lecture (free)

We Can Now Weigh Galaxies Using Dead Stars As Scales Researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville have found a new way to measure the mass of neighbouring galaxies using pulsars. Using the universe's most precise natural clocks it’s possible to detect tiny gravitational disturbances rippling through the Milky Way. By analysing 54 milliseco...