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The ARC Centre of Excellence in All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) unifies over 200 world-leading astronomers to understand the evolution of the matter, light, and elements from the Big Bang to the present day.
Visit the website: astro3d.org.au
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Australian-led GALAH project releases the chemical fingerprints for almost 1,000,000 stars on the 50th birthday of the AAT, Australia’s largest optical telescope. Australian scientists have …
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Embargo: 7 pm AEDT, Friday 6 September 2024 (10 am, London time, 05:00 US Eastern Time)The inside story of a galaxy’s long reach into space A shroud of gas stretches up to a million light years …
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Stars and dark matter are not interacting in ‘impossible ways’ A longstanding ‘conspiracy’ in astronomy – that stars and dark matter are interacting in inexplicable ways – has been overturned by an …
An international team led by Australian research centre ASTRO 3D reports that age is the driving force in changing how stars move within galaxies. Galaxies start life with their stars rotating in …
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At least one in a dozen stars show evidence of planetary ingestion according to a paper published in Nature today. The international research team studied twin stars that should have identical …
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Galaxies and stars developed faster after the Big Bang than expected Detailed pictures of one of the very first galaxies show growth was much faster than we thought An international research …
... all while discovering how the Universe evolved, how galaxies form and where the elements come from. Around the world, research agencies are struggling to achieve gender parity. A paper …
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New images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have helped Australian astronomers unlock secrets of how infant galaxies started an explosion of star formation in the very early …
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Precise mapping of temperature variation gives clue to its evolution A team of astronomers led by ASTRO 3D has drawn a temperature map of the dust drifting within one of the oldest spiral galaxies …
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New evidence for rapid heating in the early universe Astrophysicists in Australia have shed new light on the state of the universe 13 billion years ago by measuring the density of carbon in the …
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The alignment between galaxy spins and the large-scale structure of the universe reveals the processes by which different components of galaxies form. Like our own Milky Way, most galaxies have …
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Thousands more potential lenses await assessment Earlier this year a machine learning algorithm identified up to 5,000 potential gravitational lenses that could transform our ability to chart the …
