Can you see the stars?
Who has the darkest skies? Tell us what you can see on the longest night, help us map Australia’s light […]
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Astronomers see ‘cosmic ring of fire’, 11 billion years ago
Unusual galaxy set to prompt rethink on how structures in the Universe form Full paper, Full video, and images available. Details below.
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Hungry galaxies grow fat on the flesh of their neighbours
Full paper available here, read on for media release, photos, captions and background information. Modelling shows big galaxies get bigger
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Canberra astronomer becomes first Australian to win major US science award in 133 years
Lisa Kewley has transformed our understanding of the early years of the Universe, the development of galaxies, and what happens
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Hire more LGBTQ and disabled astronomers or risk falling behind, review finds
Analysis finds gender equity among star scientists improving, but big challenges remain. Ensuring research opportunities for indigenous, disabled and LGBTQ
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Hire more LGBTQ and disabled astronomers or risk falling behind, review finds
Analysis finds gender equity among star scientists improving, but big challenges remain. Ensuring research opportunities for indigenous, disabled and LGBTQ
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Star-quake vibrations lead to new estimate for Milky Way age
Data gathered by NASA’s now defunct Kepler telescope provides a solution to an astronomical mystery. Star-quakes recorded by NASA’s Kepler
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Spin doctors: Astrophysicists find when galaxies rotate, size matters
Sky survey provides clues to how they change over time. The direction in which a galaxy spins depends on its
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Not long ago, the centre of the Milky Way exploded
Researchers find evidence of a cataclysmic flare that punched so far out of the Galaxy its impact was felt 200,000
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And then there was light: looking for the first stars in the Universe
Researchers hunt for a 12-billion-year-old signal that marks the end of the post Big Bang “dark age”. Astronomers are closing