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The astronomical society of australia asa was formed in 1966 as the organisation of professional astronomers in australia. Astronomy is a natural science which is the study of celestial objects such as stars, galaxies, planets, moons, and nebulae, the physics, chemistry, and evolution of such objects, and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of earth, including supernovae explosions, gamma ray bursts, and cosmic microwave background radiation. Australian sky and telescope australian astronomy magazine. Melbourne free astronomy public lectures public lecture series run by the swinburne centre for astrophysics and supercomputing. Catch up with recent events in australia and around the world links to popular magazines and journals online. It lies 2,000 lightyears away and is the remnant of a sunlike star that exploded about 8,000 years ago. Radio astronomy is different from most other forms of observational astronomy in that the observed radio waves can be treated as waves rather than as discrete photons.
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