Do we know how long it took the Sun to form?
While there is consensus that our Sun formed about 4.6 billion years ago from a molecular cloud of gas and dust, less has been known about how long the formation of the star…
Ancient roos bounce back
Palaeontologists from Flinders University have described three unusual new species of giant fossil kangaroo. Over the last decade, a series of discoveries around Lake Callabonna in arid South Australia have yielded multiple complete…
Do other planets have solar eclipses?
Do the other Solar System planets also experience total and partial solar eclipses like the ones we witness on Earth? The answer is yes: solar eclipses frequently happen throughout the Solar System. A…
Unreal nature – AI images blur boundaries
None of these beautiful images of nature is real. We created them all using an artificial intelligence ‘art engine’ called Stable Diffusion. In a matter of seconds, the art engine turns any text…
New issue out now! Quasars, anxiety, underwater killers, quantum computers and the Doomsday Glacier…
Issue #80 of Australian Science Illustrated publishes today! Learn about the cosmic storms generated by quasars, the world-changing ways of quantum computers, the promising future of wave energy, the frightening hunting methods of…
