Light projections at night
Friday, 07 Mar 2025
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Students from the ANU School of Art and Design are showcasing astronomically inspired work as part of the Enlighten festival.

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SSO 50th Anniversary celebrations
Monday, 16 Dec 2024
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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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Headshot of a man
Monday, 09 Dec 2024
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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
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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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A cut away diagram of a telescope in a building
Tuesday, 26 Nov 2024
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Astronomers around the world are celebrating an announcement from the European Union that they will fund development of a concept for an ‘ultimate survey telescope’ in Chile.

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Rosella
Friday, 25 Oct 2024
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  • Research story

The Rosella program, developed in partnership with home-grown and international industry groups, will deliver a quasi-commercial detector control solution configurable for use with most of the detectors used in space-based astronomy and remote sensing detectors.

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THE COLOURFUL SPECTRA TAKEN AT SIDING SPRING OBSERVATORY WITH THE ELEMENT BARCODE OF THE POINTER STARS ALPHA CENTAURI
Wednesday, 02 Oct 2024
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Australian-led GALAH project releases the chemical fingerprints for almost 1,000,000 stars on the 50th birthday of the AAT, Australia’s largest optical telescope.

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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MSSS 2024 Group Photo
Monday, 30 Sep 2024
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  • Student blog

In 2001, the first Mount Stromlo Student Seminars were convened. At the time, they were called the Christmas Student Seminars. The event was created as a space for graduate students to unwind and share their research. This tradition has been passed down to the incoming PhD student cohort for the past 23 years. This year was especially significant as it marked the 100th anniversary of Mount Stromlo Observatory; it was also the most well-attended seminar to date.

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Peter Swanton at a stargazing event at Parliament House. Photo: Jamie Kidston/ANU
Monday, 26 Aug 2024
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RSAA PhD scholar Peter Swanton is using Indigenous knowledge of our night skies to unlock the secrets of our universe, and inspiring young people along the way.

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