Transient Astronomical Events or ‘transients’ are flickers in space – changes in light that last for seconds, days, weeks or years at a time. These could be caused by supernovae, gamma ray bursts, or asteroids and planets passing in front of their sun. Hadrien’s doing a PhD with the Fireballs team and working out how to use our Desert Fireball Network cameras to […]

Oodnadatta Fireball – Fireballs in the Sky Did we mention how much we love fireballs? This image of an Oodnadatta Fireball was taken by Peter Jerie, amateur astrophotographer on 1 April 2015. We came across it on the blog Lunar Meteorite Hunters a few days later, checked our own Desert Fireball Network cameras, and yes! We got some pictures of it too! We’re […]

WA’s south west isn’t the best terrain for finding meteorites, but that’s where you would have found some last week, along with the Fireballs in the Sky team  – at the Albany Science Awareness Festival. Lucy and Jay had a great time with the folks in Albany  for the Scitech Albany Science Awareness Festival and Great Southern Science Council Careers Rock! Forum. We met more […]