This project will use observations of star clusters with the Hubble Space Telescope to disentangle the multi scale nature of star formation in local spiral galaxies.

This project will use observations of star clusters with the Hubble Space Telescope to disentangle the multi scale nature of star formation in local spiral galaxies.

A new search for strong gravitational lenses in the MAGPI survey

In this project we will use data-driven methods to obtain a large abundance census of dwarf galaxies using low-quality data previously not tapped into, to learn how galaxy properties connect to abundance distributions.

In this project we will use data-driven methods to obtain a large abundance census of dwarf galaxies using low-quality data previously not tapped into, to learn how galaxy properties connect to abundance distributions.

The Australian Plasma Thruster (APT) will help deep-space probes travel for longer and further into space and be used to de-orbit satellites at the end of their lifetimes. The engine of the thruster will be based on ANU Professor Christine Charles's Helicon Double Layer Thruster (HDLT), which is the first of its kind in the world.

The Gaia mission has revolutionised our understanding of the Milky Way halo, but the biggest discoveries, which rely on individual abundances, are yet to be made.

The Gaia mission has revolutionised our understanding of the Milky Way halo, but the biggest discoveries, which rely on individual abundances, are yet to be made.

The kinematics and morphology of typically massive disk galaxies has changed dramatically over the last ~9 Gyrs.

Data archives

To investigate the role of mergers with smaller galaxies in shaping our Milky Way by using the data from stellar surveys and cosmological simulations of the NIHAO suite to identify stellar remnants of galaxies that merged with the Milky Way and explain their role in building the main components of the Milky Way.

Even from our telescopes on the tops of high mountains, the Earth’s atmosphere blurs observations reducing their clarity.

This project will deliver a benchmark sample of stellar abundances for galactic archaeology for hundreds of thousands of stars.

This project will deliver a benchmark sample of stellar abundances for galactic archaeology for hundreds of thousands of stars.

This research project employs the WiFeS spectrograph on the ANU 2.3m telescope at Siding Spring to measure nebular chemical abundances in isolated gas-rich dwarf galaxies in the Local Volume.