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Find out about the latest astronomy & astrophysics news, announcements and stories at ANU.
24 Jun 2015
RSAA astronomer, Professor Brian Schmidt AC has been appointed the next Vice-Chancellor of The Australian National University (ANU). He will take up the...
3 Jun 2015
Australian scientists and industry will play a key role in an international collaboration to build the world's most powerful optical telescope after the Giant...
22 May 2015
Over the next few years the AITC will perform the launch certification for a number of Australian satellites.
6 Mar 2015
Like the lost little puppy that wanders too far from home, astronomers have found an unusually small and distant group of stars that seems oddly out of place...
12 Feb 2015
Nobel laureate and ANU astrophysicist Professor Brian Schmidt AC has made the first donation to a new United States-based ANU charitable foundation. The ANU...
3 Feb 2015
People from all over the world have enrolled in the Cosmology massive open online course (MOOC), the latest edX offering from ANU.
2 Feb 2015
One of the most iconic ruins of the 2003 Canberra bushfires, the Mount Stromlo Observatory Director’s Residence, has re-opened to the public following a major...
14 Jan 2015
Six undergraduate students from across Australia have come to ANU to see what it is like to work in the growing space technology industry. The students are...
12 Nov 2014
RSAA astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Professor Brian Schmidt and his team of astronomers have won one of the most valuable prizes in science. The team has...
5 Nov 2014
The University community is mourning the death of Joan Duffield, a treasured member of the Mount Stromlo community and a long-time supporter of science and...
28 Aug 2014
Astronaut Chris Hadfield has inspected projects to clean up space junk, and space engineering projects, at the University’s advanced Instrumentation and...
25 Jul 2014
More than a decade after it was ravaged by the Canberra Bushfires, Mount Stromlo Observatory has launched a new heritage trail. The Mount Stromlo heritage...