AAL and Australia’s ESO Scientific Technical Committee and Users Committee representatives (Michael Murphy and Sarah Sweet, respectively) would like to invite our community to an on-line ESO proposal writing workshop to be held on Thursday 8 Sep from noon-2:30pm AEST (10am-12:30pm AWST).Read More

This year marks the 50th year of Australia-China diplomatic relations and there will be an impressive line-up of invited speakers as well as plenty of opportunity for members of both the Australian and Chinese communities to present their latest research. The workshop will cover all areas of astronomical collaboration between Australian...Read More

Two teams of astronomers led by The University of Sydney and by The University of Western Australia node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR/UWA) have recently each been awarded substantial amounts of observing time on one of the most in-demand instruments at the European Southern...Read More

Registrations are now open for ACAMAR's Workshop on VLBI: Towards a Sino-Australia high-sensitivity VLBI array, set to take place online between the 20th and 21st of October, 2022.Read More

China and Australia are located in similar time zones, and an equatorial region of the sky can be simultaneously observed by telescopes in both countries. In addition, the combined array including the Chinese VLBI Network, the southern hemisphere Long Baseline Array (LBA), the Indian GMRT and the South...Read More

Australia's national research infrastructure is celebrating Indigenous knowledge and research through the release of a new interactive infographic.Read More

AAL has been awarded an additional $1.4M from the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) program to support the Gravitational Wave Data Centre (GWDC) and computing projects related to the European Southern Observatory (ESO).Read More

On behalf of the Australian Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources (DISER), Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL) seeks to appoint two new members to the ACAMAR Australian Advisory Committee.Read More

AAL is pleased to announce that ASTAC’s Call for Proposals for Large Programs is now open. The deadline for this call is 11pm (AWST) on 1 July 2022. Submissions must be made via the ADACS website online proposal system.Read More

For the first time, an international team of researchers have captured direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. The image was produced by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, a global network of radio telescopes.Read More