Melbourne Night Sky Space Junk

MSN: Why is space so dark? The mind-blowing science of the night sky

Why is space so dark? The mind-blowing science of the night sky

Tonight is "blue moon Eve" (see the May 31 entry for more details). Late tonight, look toward the southeast to see one of the sky's most striking color contrasts. The bright, nearly full moon will be ...

On a clear night far from city lights, the Milky Way stretches overhead as a pale band, yet most of the sky between those stars looks almost perfectly black. That darkness is not just a backdrop for ...

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The galaxy stretches out as a hazy band across a dark south-eastern Australian night sky. All is still, apart from the steady blinking of a high-altitude jet plane. A "star" appears to streak across ...

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MSN: The dark sky stay with incredible stargazing an hour from Melbourne

Melbourne (/ ˈmɛlbərn / MEL-bərn, [note 1] locally [ˈmæɫbən] ⓘ; Boonwurrung / Woiwurrung: Narrm or Naarm) [10][11] is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second most-populous city in Australia. [7] The city's name generally refers to a 9,993-square-kilometre (3,858 sq mi) area, [8] comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local government ...

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Melbourne, city, capital of the state of Victoria, Australia. It is located at the head of Port Phillip Bay, on the southeastern coast. The central city is home to about 136,000 people and is the core of an extensive metropolitan area—the world’s most southerly with a population of more than 1,000,000.

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Discover things to do in Melbourne and find out why Melbourne is one of the world’s most liveable cities with fine dining, art galleries, fashion and a packed sports calendar.