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Best of ANU community celebrated with Chancellor and VC awards

The Australian National University (ANU) has celebrated the achievements of an outstanding cohort of professional and academic staff who embody the University’s spirit of “excellence in everything” at the annual Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor awards ceremony.

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The colourful spectra taken at Siding Spring Observatory with the element barcode of the pointer stars Alpha Centauri
The colourful spectra taken at Siding Spring Observatory with the element barcode of the pointer stars Alpha Centauri

Fingerprints of one million stars unlock the history of the Milky Way

Australian scientists have released data from a massive, stellar mapping survey that has analysed nearly 1 million stars in the Milky Way. The data will form the basis for decades of research into the origins and development of our galaxy, as well as providing a valuable training set for the next generation of huge artificial intelligence-driven astronomical surveys.

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Subaru Telescope in Hawaii

ANU-NAOJ ULTIMATE-Subaru project collaboration selected as example of Partners in Excellence by Go8

Collaborating with the National Astronomical Observatory Japan (NAOJ), the ANU Advanced Instrumentation & Technology Centre (AITC) will build an innovative Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics (LGS AO) system for the 8-metre optical-infrared Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, USA.

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SSO 50th Anniversary celebrations
Monday, 16 Dec 2024

College of Science and Medicine Service Awards 2024

Please join me in congratulating Zoe Holcombe for winning the College of Science and Medicine Award for Service, in recognition of the outstanding contribution she has made to our community in 2024.

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Monday, 09 Dec 2024

‘It’s such an Aussie story’: celebrating 100 years of Mount Stromlo Observatory

Nobel Prize-winning astronomer Professor Brian Schmidt reflected on a century of science and progress in an interview with ABC journalist Annabel Crabb.

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Monday, 09 Dec 2024

Best of ANU community celebrated with Chancellor and VC awards

The Australian National University (ANU) has celebrated the achievements of an outstanding cohort of professional and academic staff who embody the University’s spirit of “excellence in everything” at the annual Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor awards ceremony.

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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…
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A night in the life of an astronomer

A night in the life of an Astronomer

ANU College of Science and Medicine recently did a feature on RSAA Researcher, Dr Stefania Barsanti, observing on Australia's largest optical…
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Research Byte - Astrophysical flows

Astrophysical flows, which encompasses a wide range of dynamic phenomena like supernovae, accretion discs, and galactic outflows, are driven by…
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Astrophysics Lecture
18 Mar 2025 | 11am

RSAA Colloquium: Professor Michele Trenti (U.Melbourne)

Professor Michele Trenti from the University of Melbourne will be giving the RSAA Colloquium on "The SpIRIT mission: An Australian Space Telescope contributing to multi-messenger astrophysics."
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Astrophysics Lecture
25 Mar 2025 | 11am

RSAA Colloquium: Taissa Danilovich (Monash U.)

Astrochemistry as a diagnostic of evolved stars in binary systems.
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4 Apr 2025 | 7 - 9pm

Mt. Stromlo Public Astronomy Night 2025

Mount Stromlo Observatory in conjunction with the Canberra Astronomical Society invite you to attend our public observing nights of 2054. Come and see the craters of the moon, planets, and beautiful star clusters and nebulae. Object visibility will vary depending on the night.
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