Astronomy Australia Ltd is delighted to announce that Professor Cathryn Trott has been elected to the position of Board Chair for AAL. Professor Trott is based at Curtin University in Perth and has recently become the Chief Scientist of CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility.Read More

Astronomers investigating the mysteries of black holes, pulsars, white dwarfs and dark matter are celebrating this week as the world’s largest and most powerful gamma-ray telescope (currently under construction with support from Australian manufacturing) was granted special legal status by the European Commission.Read More

Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL) is delighted to announce that Dr Alexander Cooke will join the company as Chief Executive Officer, commencing on 6 January 2025.Read More

It may not seem like astronomers and marine researchers have much in common. It turns out, the same software developers who help us see into the far reaches of space can also help us learn more about the big blue ocean here on Earth.Read More

Astronomy Australia Ltd (AAL) is announcing a call for applications for a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). This is an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to take on an important leadership role in the Australian astronomy community. In this role, the successful candidate will be in the...Read More

AAL is pleased to announce that it has funds to support an initial study into an Australian Gravitational Wave Observatory.Read More

The first all-sky survey by the x-ray imaging telescope eROSITA has been released, yielding the largest X-ray catalogue ever published. Along with the data, a series of scientific papers were also released today, including two by Australian researchers Dr Adelle Goodwin and PhD student Silvia Mantovanini from International...Read More

A global team led by Macquarie University’s Dr Stuart Ryder and Swinburne University of Technology’s Associate Professor Ryan Shannon have discovered the most distant fast radio burst ever detected, and one of the most energetic. The team determined its location and distance from Earth by using a combination...Read More

A $1 million Federal Government grant has recently enabled the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) to undergo ‘brain surgery’ – its resulting processing capability is being hailed as a significant technological achievement and feat of software engineering.Read More