The Milky Way contains a fossil record of galaxies it has absorbed.
RSAA Postdoctoral Fellow, Karlie Noon, has been named a 2026 recipient of the Wayfinder Award presented by Kia, an honor extended annually to 15 visionaries whose outstanding achievements in science, conservation, education, technology and storytelling further the Society’s mission to illuminate and protect the wonder of our world.
An international team of scientists from the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA collaborations, including researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), has shown for the first time that gravitational waves, ripples in space and time produced by some of the most violent events in the Universe, such as the collision of two black holes, can be used to measure and correct the calibration of the detectors that observe them.
How black hole mergers are helping scientists calibrate the Universe’s most sensitive instruments
An international team of scientists from the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA collaborations, including researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for…
Dancing dwarf galaxies predict our Milky Way's future
A collaborative survey involving the Australian National University (ANU), the University of Queensland, and others, has provided a more detailed…
iLAuNCH Trailblazer program and Rosella
The Rosella program, developed in partnership with home-grown and international industry groups, will deliver a quasi-commercial detector control…
RSAA Colloquium
Direct detection experiments seek to observe rare interactions between dark matter particles and ordinary matter, requiring extreme sensitivity and deep underground locations to shield against cosmic-ray backgrounds. The two dark matter searches I will introduce in this talk happen to share an unusual home: gold mines.
Mt. Stromlo Public Astronomy Night 2026
Mount Stromlo Observatory in conjunction with the Canberra Astronomical Society invite you to attend our public observing nights of 2026. Come and see the craters of the moon, planets, and beautiful star clusters and nebulae. Object visibility will vary depending on the night.
Supernovae Near and Far, celebrating the achievements of Brian Schmidt and the 40th anniversary of SN1987A
The 23rd of February 2027 marks the 40th anniversary of the arrival of Supernovae 1987A. That same week coincides with the 60th birthday of Brian Schmidt who shared the Nobel Prize for observations which led to the discovery of the accelerating universe.To access the conference's official site please click on the conference website button.