This week, we're using Taurus and the Pleiades to tell a story about the life cycle of stars.

You can listen to this episode any night this week, and the stars we're looking at will be visible all Summer.

Make sure you've got this episode downloaded and ready to go, and remember to take insect repellent and a jumper if it's cold. We'll see you outside!

This week, we're finding Sirius in the night sky - and in some stories as well.

You can listen to this episode any night this week, and Sirius and Canis Major will be visible all summer.

Make sure you've got this episode downloaded and ready to go, and remember to take insect repellent and a jumper if it's cold. We'll see you outside!

This week, we're spotting the constellation of Orion, and taking a look at how stars form.

You can listen to this episode any night this week, and Orion will be visible all summer

Make sure you've got this episode downloaded and ready to go, and remember to take insect repellent and a jumper if it's cold. We'll see you outside!

This week, we're hunting for Mars, the red planet, and taking a look at why it's got scientists so excited.

You can listen to this episode any night this week, and Mars will be visible for most of the summer. Perseverance, NASA's latest rover, should be landing on February 18th - tune in to the live stream at nasa.gov.

Make sure you've got this episode downloaded and ready to go, and remember to take insect repellent and a jumper if it's cold. We'll see you outside!

This week, we're taking a closer look at the surface of the moon, and what it can teach us about how our universe works.

You can listen to this episode any night this week - the moon will be full on December 30th.

Make sure you've got this episode downloaded and ready to go, and remember to take insect repellent and a jumper if it's cold. We'll see you outside!

This week, we're learning to find our way around the night sky, and spotting a once-in-a-lifetime planetary conjunction.

You can listen to this episode any night this week, but the planets will be at their closest on the 21st of December.

Make sure you've got this episode downloaded and ready to go, and remember to take insect repellent and a jumper if it's cold. We'll see you outside!

We're bringing you seven spectacular sessions of summer stargazing over the school holidays, guided by presenters from the Scitech Planetarium.

Find us at scitech.org.au/stargaze or search for 'Audio Guide to the Galaxy' on iTunes, Google and Spotify.

We'll see you outside!

In the final episode for season 2, we're taking a look at the two largest planets in our solar system. Jupiter and Saturn just happen to be rising in the east just after sunset for the next few weeks - and that gives us the chance to take explore just how much they've shaped our solar system's story.

You can listen to this episode at 7:30pm, any night for the next two weeks.

This week on the Audio Guide to the Galaxy, we're continuing our space walk. We'll be exploring the 4.2 billion km expanse of the solar system at 3.5 million kilometres a second. So put your walking shoes on, and let's get out of this world

Once again, you can listen to this episode any time. Yep, even day time.

If you missed part one last week, you might like to listen to that first - you'll find it one episode back wherever you're listening to your podcasts.

This week on the Audio Guide to the Galaxy, we're going for a walk. No, really - we're walking through the inner planets of our solar system at 175 000km/s. So put your walking shoes on, and let's head into orbit.

You can listen to this episode any time. Yep, even day time.

Tune in next week for part two, which will take us beyond the asteroid belt to the outer Solar System.