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Find out about the latest astronomy & astrophysics news, announcements and stories at ANU.
4 Jul 2023
RSAA Postdoctoral Researcher Dr Sven Buder was joint winner of the ASA 2023 Louise Webster Prize for outstanding research by a scientist early in their post-...
19 Jun 2023
RSAA was successful in receiving a 2023 Silver Pleiades Award.
13 Jun 2023
In March 2023 the MAVIS Consortium successfully completed the instrument's Preliminary Design Review (PDR). The PDR process saw both praise from ESO and...
14 Nov 2022
Professor Celine D’Orgeville has recently been appointed Director of RSAA’s Advanced Instrumentation Technology Centre (AITC).
6 Sep 2022
The largest women-only recruitment drive in the history of Australian Astronomy and Space is underway at The Australian National University (ANU).
17 Aug 2022
Are you a woman or a gender-diverse researcher/scientist/engineer/project manager? Whether early or mid-career, junior or senior, aspiring or experienced, are...
14 Jun 2022
The AITC Team at the Australian National University (ANU) Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre (AITC) has won the 2021 ANU Vice-Chancellor's...
2 Jun 2021
Australian scientists will help construct one of the world’s most powerful telescopes that will push the cosmic frontier of what is visible.
11 Dec 2020
Stargazers are in for a summer treat with three out-of-this-world events over the next week, ranging from shooting stars to a great planetary "romance...
16 Nov 2020
Australia's largest ever selfie has captured some incredible images from the ACT and the Northern Territory.
11 Nov 2020
An international team of astronomers has challenged a popular theory that mysterious dark matter dominates gravity in the inner parts of spiral galaxies such...
16 Oct 2020
Lately the supergiant star has been behaving strangely.