The project will demonstrate secure quantum communications links between scientists at the Advanced Instrumentation Technology Centre (AITC) at Mount Stromlo and the UNSW Canberra optical telescope.
An international team of astronomers has discovered a previously unknown major concentration of galaxies in the constellation Vela, which they have dubbed the Vela supercluster.
An internationally-recognised scientist who has designed instruments for observatories around the world has been appointed the new Director of the Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre at Mount Stromlo.