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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 609 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 or from the iTunes podcast page This week’s show….. Microquasar shines bright like a diamond A microquasar generated by a black hole feeding on a star, has been detected in another galaxy shining as bright as a diamond. It’s the first time one of these powerful jets, travelling at close to the speed of light, has been seen beyond our galaxy. Saturn’s moon Titan has its own version of the River Nile Scientists with NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have spotted what appears to be a miniature, extraterrestrial likeness of Earth’s Nile River: a river valley on Saturn’s moon Titan that stretches more than 400 kilometres from its “headwaters” to a delta which drains into a large sea. The star giving up her secrets Scientists have found that Vega, one of the nearest stars to the Sun, is at least two hundred million years older than previously thought. The discovery helps astronomers better understanding of how stars work. Most distant galaxy ever seen The Hubble Space Telescope is giving scientists a look at the oldest galaxies ever seen, dating back some 13.3 billion years and providing a glimpse into how the cosmos must have looked just 380 million years after the Big Bang. Will the world end on December 21st? NASA says no. If you believe the latest doomsday prophecies, the world comes to an end this Friday. But don’t panic, because science can prove the 21st of December 2012, won’t mean the apocalypse. And if they’re wrong, nobody will be left to know anyway )-; 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 609 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
    or from the iTunes podcast page

    This week’s show…..

    Microquasar shines bright like a diamond
    A microquasar generated by a black hole feeding on a star, has been detected in another galaxy shining as bright as a diamond. It’s the first time one of these powerful jets, travelling at close to the speed of light, has been seen beyond our galaxy.

    Saturn’s moon Titan has its own version of the River Nile
    Scientists with NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have spotted what appears to be a miniature, extraterrestrial likeness of Earth’s Nile River: a river valley on Saturn’s moon Titan that stretches more than 400 kilometres from its “headwaters” to a delta which drains into a large sea.

    The star giving up her secrets
    Scientists have found that Vega, one of the nearest stars to the Sun, is at least two hundred million years older than previously thought. The discovery helps astronomers better understanding of how stars work.

    Most distant galaxy ever seen
    The Hubble Space Telescope is giving scientists a look at the oldest galaxies ever seen, dating back some 13.3 billion years and providing a glimpse into how the cosmos must have looked just 380 million years after the Big Bang.

    Will the world end on December 21st? NASA says no.
    If you believe the latest doomsday prophecies, the world comes to an end this Friday. But don’t panic, because science can prove the 21st of December 2012, won’t mean the apocalypse. And if they’re wrong, nobody will be left to know anyway )-;

    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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