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Hi, I'm Stuart Gary, I'm a journalist and broadcaster with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. I love science, especially the majesty and wonder of space, so I put together a weekly astronomy show for the ABC called StarStuff.

In my spare time I like to fly planes, practice karate and pistol target shooting and play around with my cars, a twin Turbocharged Falcon GT Interceptor and a DeTomaso Pantera GTS.

I’m vegan, a life member of the RSPCA and a supporter of several animal welfare organisations.

My other great passion is music which is understandable when you realise that I was a radio music jock long before I became a journalist. My record library contains tens of thousands of singles, albums, videos, CD’s and DVDs. These days that’s all stored in an 8 terabyte raid enclosure linked to a desk top PC at home. My tastes range from rock and grunge through to trance and new romantics. At the moment I’m listening to heaps of MGMT, William Control, Hawthorne Heights and Short Shack, but I have lots of time for the classics like Placebo and the early stuff from Silverchair, In fact Neon Ballroom is still my favourite album, and Emotion Sickness is still one of my two favourite songs (the other being William Control’s Death Club).

StarStuff is a great name for the show, but it works on more levels than just astronomy, it’s really cool for any science program because everything in the universe after the quark gluon plasma of the big bang is star stuff even the iron which makes your blood red was manufactured in the supernova explosions of stars. Carl Sagan said it best, we are all star stuff.


This blog is designed to allow me to publish all the things which can’t fit into StarStuff. There’s heaps of really interesting stuff out there and only a half hour window for the show, so each week becomes a battle to try and squeeze it all in. This blog lets me do that.

You can check out the show at the offical ABC StarStuff website:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/starstuff/

There's also an official ABC StarStuff Twitter feed: @abcstarstuff

And an official ABC Science website: http://www.abc.net.au/science/


The legal stuff: This is my personal blog. The views expressed in this blog are those of me only and not the Australian Broadcasting Corporation or its management. I do not claim ownership of any of the media in this blog. where possible credit and or source will always be given. If one of your photos or other media is submitted in this blog and you would like it removed please let me know.

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  1. StarStuff episode 581 is now out Listen to it on the best ABC radio stations across Australia. On Science 360 Radio in the United States. On line as audio on demand and as a podcast at: http://www.abc.net.au/science/starstuff Universe is running out of star stuff A new study has found galaxies are running out of hydrogen needed to make new stars. Once that’s used up, the lights of the Universe will start to go out forever. How to weigh an asteroid Scientists have successfully worked out the weight of a distant asteroid which will be the target of a NASA sample return mission in four years time. The first of its kind calculation involved understanding its orbit and everything that could affect that orbit — including neighbouring celestial bodies and any propulsive force (however minute) which the asteroid generates. Asteroid near miss Planet Earth has dodged a bullet as an asteroid scrapped past the planet flying just 14,000 kilometres above the ground, lower than the orbits of many satellites. The space rock is now classified as the sixth closest approaching near Earth object. Burning Planet Astronomers have for the first time, found a planet that’s disintegrating as the blistering heat of the star it orbits slowly evaporates it. The scientific detective story used a range of Earth and space based telescopes in an extensive process of elimination, to work out what’s going on. Fire breathing Dragon The SpaceX Dragon has successfully splashed down old school style in the Pacific Ocean completing its first mission to the International Space Station, and becoming the first private spaceship to visit the orbiting outpost. The 9 day pioneering mission brought back 640 kilograms of completed science experiments, the first time the space station crew have been able to do this since last years retirement of the space shuttle. StarStuff is broadcast weekly on the best ABC Radio stations in Australia, On the National Science Foundation’s Science 360 Radio across the United States. As audio on demand and as a free podcast at…. http://www.abc.net.au/science/starstuff

    StarStuff episode 581 is now out
    Listen to it on the best ABC radio stations across Australia.
    On Science 360 Radio in the United States.
    On line as audio on demand and as a podcast at:
    http://www.abc.net.au/science/starstuff

    Universe is running out of star stuff
    A new study has found galaxies are running out of hydrogen needed to make new stars. Once that’s used up, the lights of the Universe will start to go out forever.

    How to weigh an asteroid
    Scientists have successfully worked out the weight of a distant asteroid which will be the target of a NASA sample return mission in four years time. The first of its kind calculation involved understanding its orbit and everything that could affect that orbit — including neighbouring celestial bodies and any propulsive force (however minute) which the asteroid generates.

    Asteroid near miss
    Planet Earth has dodged a bullet as an asteroid scrapped past the planet flying just 14,000 kilometres above the ground, lower than the orbits of many satellites. The space rock is now classified as the sixth closest approaching near Earth object.

    Burning Planet
    Astronomers have for the first time, found a planet that’s disintegrating as the blistering heat of the star it orbits slowly evaporates it. The scientific detective story used a range of Earth and space based telescopes in an extensive process of elimination, to work out what’s going on.

    Fire breathing Dragon
    The SpaceX Dragon has successfully splashed down old school style in the Pacific Ocean completing its first mission to the International Space Station, and becoming the first private spaceship to visit the orbiting outpost. The 9 day pioneering mission brought back 640 kilograms of completed science experiments, the first time the space station crew have been able to do this since last years retirement of the space shuttle.

    StarStuff is broadcast weekly on the best ABC Radio stations in Australia,
    On the National Science Foundation’s Science 360 Radio across the United States.
    As audio on demand and as a free podcast at….
    http://www.abc.net.au/science/starstuff

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