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The pioneers of Australian scientific research, education and communication have been recognised in the 2016 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes.
The next decade will be an exciting one for Australian astronomy, as we probe the heavens for answers to age old questions.
The future looks very bright for Australian radio astronomy but it was somewhat clouded earlier this year when CSIRO’s radio astronomy program took a dramatic hit in the Australian federal budget. CSIRO…
The first images from Australia’s Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope have given scientists a sneak peek at the potential images to come from the much larger Square Kilometre Array (SKA…
Today, after several years of design and construction, CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is officially open. The A$140m facility, built in the remote Murchison Shire of Western…
Western Australia is world-famous for its vast mineral reserves, but if the astronomy community has its way, the state will soon be equally famous for advancing our understanding of the universe and the…
Australia and New Zealand could be on the brink of a major scientific coup. In roughly a month’s time, the site for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope will be announced. Australia and New…
Six radio telescopes in Australia and New Zealand have worked in concert to observe a distant radio source, believed to be…
Some 3.8 billion years ago a star in the constellation of Draco wandered a little too close to a nearby black hole. The star was violently torn apart by the black hole’s tidal forces, creating two massive…
We know a lot about what the universe looks like and how it works. But what we’ve been able to figure out about the cosmos is dwarfed by all the things we don’t know. How do galaxies, stars and planets…
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Australian Government Women in STEM Ambassador, Professor of Practice, UNSW
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor (Radio Astronomy), Curtin University
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ARC Australian Laureate Fellow, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne
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Dean of Science, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Director, Astronomy and Space Science, CSIRO
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Professor, Radio Astronomy, University of Sydney
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Research Postdoctoral fellow, CSIRO
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