Astrophiz 77: Dr Christine Redman

Published: March 6, 2019, 9:48 p.m.

b"In this episode we feature a fabulous interview with\\xa0Dr Christine Redman,\\xa0who is an Honorary Fellow with the Melbourne Graduate School for Education at the University of Melbourne. She is going to give us the big picture on the state of Science Education in the Primary (Elementary) Secondary and Tertiary sectors in Australia, and how Science Education is the key to Australia\\u2019s ambition to nurture its newly formed Australian Space Agency.\\n\\nFor observers and astrophotographers, in \\u2018What\\u2019s Up Doc\\u2019, Dr Ian \\u2018Astroblog\\u2019 Musgrave tells us what to look for in the morning, evening & night skies. In this episode all the action is in the morning sky and in 'Ian's tangent' he tells us about robots snorting asteroid dust with Tantalum bullets.\\n\\nIn the news:\\n\\nAcademic & Scientific Publishing: A short intro to predatory publishing\\n\\nObservations of Radio Magnetars with the CDSCC Deep Space Network at Tidbinbilla.\\n\\nAstronomers love big numbers."