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To keep size and weight down and communications capacity high, the consortium plans to us use Ka-band (26.5-40 GHz ) radio communication and highly directional transmitting and receiving antennae on the spacecraft.
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The Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre at Mount Stromlo Observatory is rapidly becoming one of the most advanced astronomical instrument and spacecraft assembly facilities in the country.
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A PhD student at the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Catherine Farage, is studying massive ellipticals in galaxy clusters, to look for clues that could help to explain the mechanisms behind the formation of large galaxies.
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The researchers discovered proof of a vast filament of material that connects our Milky Way galaxy to nearby clusters of galaxies, which are similarly interconnected to the rest of the Universe.
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Will just any old water support life? This is a question that forms a central theme in the research of Eriita Jones, who is completing her PhD at the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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SkyMapper will be the first survey telescope to create a detailed digital map of the southern skies
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ANU researchers Dr Raquel Salmeron from the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Dr Trevor Ireland from the Research School of Earth Sciences, have proposed a new theory as to how chondrules formed in the early solar system.
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In the case of protecting the Earth from a massive impact, a large part of that precaution is the Catalina Sky Survey.
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This is a really exciting opportunity not only to study a red dwarf at close quarters, but to study one around which young planets will most likely be forming.
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