Eta Aquarid meteor shower 2016: When and where to watch the meteor shower in Australia and other top stories.

• Eta Aquarid meteor shower 2016: When and where to watch the meteor shower in Australia

  

  Australians will have an excellent view of the meteor shower on Friday. The Eta Aquarid meteor shower will be viewed in the mornings of May 5 and 6, and people in the southern hemisphere will get to see the celestial event. Meteors, or shooting stars, this week has a relatively broad maximum, which, according to Earth Sky, means skywatchers can view it the day before and after the predicted peak of May 6. Called one of the finest showers of the year, the Eta Aquarid is expected to show a number..

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• Rare whale washes ashore in Victoria

  

  A WHALE THAT died on Saturday after being stranded at Red Bluff, Lake Tyers Beach in East Gippsland may have been a rare dwarf sperm whale. If so, it would be the first time the species (Kogia sima) has ever been recorded in Victoria. Fire management staff on their way back from controlled burning operations were called to retrieve the 2.4m female whale, which died soon after stranding itself on the beach, according to the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) in Gippsland..

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• New push to protect endangered parrot

  

  The critically endangered swift parrot is the subject of a new Tasmanian conservation campaign, which is calling for an end to logging on Bruny Island, the bird's last safe nesting place.Forests on the island are the subject of an interim logging ban and the Bob Brown Foundation wants the exclusion zone made permanent."Bruny Island ... is the last great stronghold for these birds to nest - they depend on these forests," Dr Brown said on Tuesday.Originally published as New push to protect endange..

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• We just solved one of the biggest mysteries about how water flows on Mars

  

  Images show water as it (very, very slowly) flows from season to season. Photo: Coprates Chasma, 2014 / NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Researchers just uncovered an incredible fact about liquid water on Mars. It's not just flowing; it's also boiling. And that discovery also solves one of the major mysteries about the surface of the red planet.The results of a new experiment published today in Nature Geoscience detail how scientists made the finding and what i..

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• ExoMars 2018 now ExoMars 2020 after two-year postponement

  

  Exomars 2018 is now ExoMars 2020 after the Euro-Russian Mars landing mission was officially postponed for two years. The joint ESA/Roscosmos venture has been beset by delays over the past four years and recent setbacks in mission preparations have placed the 2018 launch window out of reach, prompting the rescheduling. According to ESA, the postponement came at the end of the Joint ExoMars Steering Board (JESB) meeting in Moscow, which received a "Tiger Team" report that was started last year re..

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• Florida's Coral Reef Is Disintegrating

  

  The Great Barrier Reef of Australia is among the greatest reservoirs of biodiversity in the world. The World Heritage site is presently under attack due to hot ocean temperatures, resulting into widespread coral bleaching that has been damaging. The bleaching has even led to major damage to the reef in some regions. A latest study by the Australian Research Council scientists has now found that the prevailing bleaching event has occurred especially because of human-caused global warming. In ..

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• This Tiny Star Is Now The Best Place To Hunt For Alien Life

  

  In a few years, powerful new telescopes will usher in a search for habitable worlds outside our solar system. And TRAPPIST-1 — a dim, tepid star just a smidge larger than Jupiter — is one of the first places we’ll look. It’s only 40 light years away, and it’s home to several promising, Earth-sized exoplanets. Three siblings, described today in the journal Nature, are the first exoplanets ever discovered around an “ultracool dwarf” star. And they’re a jackpot when it comes to the search for ali..

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• Is this the Apocalypse?

  

  DOOMSDAY preppers who fear the world will come to an end in a Hollywood styled zombie apocalypse blockbuster movie may feel some sense of vindication after top scientists identified six main dangers that could wipe out humanity. The Global Catastrophic Risks 2016 report compiled a list of what events could wipe out 10 per cent or more of the population in a single hit within the next five years and beyond. The six main dangers include killer robots, nuclear war, engineered viruses, clim..

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