Honouring Australia’s top astronomers, from Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, and Perth. • Peering into the hearts of the brightest galaxies, Grace Blomfield, ANU• Ghost galaxies: why some galaxies are almost invisible, Dr Maria Luisa Buzzo, Swinburne University (now Yale)• Catching a mysterious cosmic pulse in the act, Dr Ziteng (Andy) Wang, Curtin University• How galaxies got their discs, traced…
Gippsland, Coffs Harbour and Brisbane amateur astronomers, each inspired by the Apollo missions, honoured by Australia’s professional astronomers. Each received the Page Medal for discoveries that have guided humanity’s big telescopes. The Gippsland planet hunter Chris Stockdale co-discovered an ‘ultra-hot Neptune’, four ‘super Jupiters’ and several potentially Earth-like planets, all orbiting distant stars. He has…
National recognition for astronomers from Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Perth. The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) honours six astronomers at its Annual Scientific Meeting in Adelaide this week. “Our 2025 prize winners are investigating how galaxies form and evolve, and developing new tools to explore the cosmos. They are working with some of the most…
Stars evolve according to the elements they manufacture Stars are giant factories that produce most of the elements in the Universe – including the elements in us, and in the Earth’s metal deposits. But what stars produce changes over time. Two new papers published in MNRAS shed light on how the youngest generation of stars…
Research using new antennas in the Australian hinterland has reduced background noise and brought us closer to finding a 13-billion-year-old signal Videos and images: direct link The early Universe was dark, filled with a hot soup of opaque particles. These condensed to form neutral hydrogen which coalesced to form the first stars in what astronomers…
New technique helps NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Astronomers have turned a cluster of galaxies into a gargantuan magnifying lens, using it to study another galaxy, 10.7 billion light years away, in unprecedented detail.
Galaxies with extended disks maintain productivity, research reveals Image, video, GIFs Paper details, authors and affiliations More about ASTRO 3D Media release below Massive galaxies with extra-large extended “puffy” disks produced stars for longer than their more compact cousins, new modelling reveals. In a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal, researchers led by Dr Anshu…
Completion of Australian-led astronomy project sheds light on the evolution of the Universe Image, video, GIFs Paper details, authors and affiliations More about ASTRO 3D Media release below The complex mechanics determining how galaxies spin, grow, cluster and die have been revealed following the release of all the data gathered during a massive seven-year Australian-led…
Astronomers head to the country to spark student interest in what lies above. Images Additional Information Media release below Children in remote and regional schools will soon be visited by astronomers bearing gifts in a quest to kindle interest in the cosmos. The scientists – drawn from the ranks of the ARC Centre of Excellence…
Australian telescopes and European satellite combine to reveal unexpected motions among the Galaxy’s rarest objects Image Additional Information Media release below Theories on how the Milky Way formed are set to be rewritten following discoveries about the behaviour of some of its oldest stars. An investigation into the orbits of the Galaxy’s metal-poor stars –…