StarStuff, with Stuart Gary
A solar flare is a sudden, rapidly moving and intense ejection of gas and particles from the Sun's interior well into its corona (outer atmosphere), to distances often exceeding 1 million kilometres. (Source: NASA)
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Solar max sends journos spinning
Solar peak claims alarmist, say scientists. Plus: astronomers still in the dark over black holes; and fast-spinning asteroids split in two.
Duration: 00:34:02; File size: 15MB 768kb
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Old faults show shrinking Moon
Duration: 00:26:43; File size: 12MB 800kb Fresh evidence Moon is getting smaller. Plus: why a faster expanding universe doesn't need dark energy; and solar system older than we think.
Thursday, 26 August 2010
New gamma-ray star blasts away assumptions
Duration: 00:31:58; File size: 14MB 704kb Gamma-ray nova discovery 'shocks' scientists. Plus: 'Trojan' asteroid found near Neptune; and internet used to find meteor craters.
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Lunar lumps show Moon bone-dry
Duration: 00:28:47; File size: 13MB 304kb Moon rocks clue to Earth's water origins. Plus: third space walk fails to repair space station air-con; and UK releases top-secret UFO files.
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Killer asteroid coming our way
Duration: 00:33:19; File size: 15MB 336kb Five-hundred-metre-wide asteroid heading toward Earth. Plus: did the Big Bang happen?; solar tsunami ripples through space; and science roundup from across the twitter-verse.
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
Moon-making made easy
Duration: 00:22:31; File size: 10MB 480kb Saturn spacecraft spots moons in the making. Plus: NASA releases high-resolution map of Mars; and Chinese space junk threatens the International Space Station.
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Mercury has more messages in final fly-by
Duration: 00:32:26; File size: 14MB 944kb Spacecraft Messenger unlocks Mercury's volcanic past. Plus: Is the sky falling?; and space telescope 'blinded' by the light.
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Rosetta's stone: spacecraft captures asteroid images
Duration: 00:35:27; File size: 16MB 304kb Rosetta's stunning asteroid flyby. Plus: protons smaller than expected; does particle physics' standard model stand up?; and Pacific solar eclipse amazes onlookers.
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Cosmos camera takes snapshot of all time
Duration: 00:29:34; File size: 13MB 832kb New space telescope pictures the history of the universe. Plus: scientists spot planet orbiting another 'sun'; and Progress's near miss with the International Space Station.
Thursday, 8 July 2010
Blobs in space
Duration: 00:32:36; File size: 15MB 48kb Astronomers solve 'green monster' mystery. Plus: particles to get rethink; and Japan shows off souvenirs from 5-billion-kilometre round trip to space.
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Black hole theory peers into unknown
Duration: 00:29:57; File size: 13MB 816kb New theory explains the secrets of black holes. Plus: scientists hunt for potential Earth-killer asteroids; and Jupiter's mysterious flash explained.
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
New ocean theories awash on Mars
Duration: 00:35:22; File size: 16MB 624kb New evidence supports ancient oceans on Mars. Plus: astronomers track exoplanet orbiting a distant star; and Japanese spacecraft returns from seven-year, 2-billion-kilometre trip, parachuting to Earth in outback South Australia.
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Titan life possible
Duration: 00:35:07; File size: 16MB 112kb Astronomers say life on Saturn's moon, Titan, can't be ruled out. Plus: dust-buster sweeps up new planets; and Japanese spacecraft to land at Woomera.
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Almost nothing changes everything
Duration: 00:33:04; File size: 16MB 240kb Miniscule particle completely changes understanding of the universe. Plus: astronomers map gas clouds surrounding Milky Way; and Russian rockets launch from Europe's Kourou Space Centre.
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Stellar cannibal eats its young
Duration: 00:35:40; File size: 17MB 00kb A distant planet is being slowly eaten by its parent star. Plus: a new way to study supernovae; and evidence of a massive asteroid impact for the Australian coast.
Tuesday, 25 May 2010

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