AAL would like to congratulate Dr Sarah Pearce, AAL Board Director, who was recently named  2020 Telstra New South Wales Business Woman of the Year. Sarah also won the Public Sector and Academia award, recognising women who dedicate themselves to making an impact in education or public service.  An...Read More

AAL is pleased to announce a new Call for Large Program Proposals on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), for observations starting in Semester 2020B. Read More

AAL thanks the Australian Government for $2M of new funding towards the establishment of an Australian Gravitational Wave Data Centre. The funding, made available through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), will enhance Australia's position as a world leader in data-intensive gravitational wave research. Read More

AAL would like to congratulate Associate Professor Chris Power, from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) at The University of Western Australia (UWA) Node, for being one of four recipients of the inaugural Australasian Leadership Computing Grants (ALCG). These grants are the largest of their kind...Read More

AAL would like to congratulate Australian student, Katy Proctor, who was recently granted one of the coveted ESO Summer Studentship positions for 2020. Katy, who is currently studying a Masters at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in WA, was selected as one of just six recipients for the...Read More

We are pleased to announce the new Call for Proposals at the Anglo-Australian Telescope for observations in Semester 2020A (February 2020 - July 2020).Read More

UPDATE from original news item posted on 17/3: In line with recent government regulation regarding the current COVID-19 outbreak, AAL staff from the Melbourne and Sydney offices are working from home, and have been since 16 March 2020. It has proved to be a successful arrangement, and AAL would...Read More

AAL would like to congratulate the team at Swinburne, including the Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS) team, on the release of their new Symptom Tracker at beatcovid19now.org. Swinburne’s Prof. Richard Osborne, an expert in global health and epidemiology, worked with astronomers Prof. Matthew Bailes and Prof. Karl...Read More

​Given ongoing developments related to the COVID-19 pandemic, ESOhas postponed the proposal submission deadline for Period 106 from 26 March to 23 April 12:00 CEST (8pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, 6pm Australian Western Standard Time). Furthermore, to minimise the risk of infection the presence of staff has been...Read More

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth will soon get a huge data processing boost from a new 78-node cluster to be provided by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).   The new cluster will provide astronomers with a dedicated system to process over 30 petabytes (PB) of data from the Murchison Widefield...Read More