Stories by media students at Ultimo TAFE
Humanity is about to get its first (willingly received!) moon rocks in 44 years thanks to China’s Chang’e 5 probe. Yes, it’s true – we’re spoilt with all the space rocks we’ve been getting recently. Chang’e 5 is China’s first sample return mission, and the first mission to retrieve lunar samples since the Soviet Luna […]
After travelling over 5 billion kilometres on a six year round trip, a Japanese spacecraft named Hayabusa 2 has completed its mission, potentially bringing us closer to unlocking more secrets of our solar system. The mission In late 2014, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) sent a probe to a near-Earth asteroid named Ryugu. This […]
Think back over the last five years. It may be easy to pick out significant events, but how many out of those 43,000 hours do you actually remember? The number isn’t likely to be high, but this isn’t a bad thing. The human memory filters out irrelevant and outdated information in order for us to […]
South of the northern lights, there lies another aurora-like phenomenon: STEVE (or Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement, formally). It’s distinguished by a large, purple stream of plasma. One of the many unique things about STEVE is its accompanied ‘picket fence’. Vertical green stripes line the purple ribbon, and these have some mystery surrounding them. Due […]
Written by @breakofdayfilms Chris Lawrence has been barbering for 2 and a half years at Tooth & Nail in Marrickville, Sydney. I first met Chris about 9 months ago. I’d had a bad haircut at another local barber and I was nervous about finding someone in my new home town who I could trust to […]
Created by Tim Samuel. Discover what it means to be a night owl – to live and breathe the night – and also what it means to be Tim Samuel. All through the magical power of ASMR. Click here for a surprise. Featured image by James Lee on Unsplash
Created by Rufus Barr. Glenn Miller was the highest selling music artist during World War II, who gave it all up to entertain the Allied troops. On December 15, 1944, Glenn Miller disappeared on his way from England to Paris. This audio feature takes a look at what may have happened.
Created by Dash Buxton. For some, the sound of crackling vinyl and a turntable finding the track represents nostalgia! Meanwhile, records are a novelty that are coming back with force for the new generation who’ve only know music as a file in their phone or laptop. In this 3 minute piece that went to air […]
The Milky Way galaxy has had a rough history of collisions with other galactic bodies, and as we get closer to our crash with Andromeda galaxy, we’re learning more about the mergers of the past. Our galaxy is built on collisions – over the last 12 billion years, at least a dozen other galaxies have […]
Created by Tiffany Kumar. The video game Among Us has been dominating Twitch and Youtube, stealing the spotlight from Fall Guys, and here is why. Video games have always dominated the streaming platform TwitchTV, as well as a huge chunk of YouTube. With more and more people tuning in online and playing games during 2020, the industry has […]