Astronomical Society of Australia
National recognition for astronomers from Perth, Canberra, and Melbourne
- How dark matter behaves in colliding galaxy clusters, explained by UWA/ICRAR student William McDonald
- Why the Universe’s earliest stars are so elusive, by Dr Piyush Sharda of ANU (now working at Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands)
- A sharper focus on when the Universe lit up, by Dr Nichole Barry of Curtin University/ICRAR
- The chemistry of starlight helps explain our galaxy’s evolution, says Dr Sven Buder of ANU
- A mission to study 6 million galaxies in 5 years, by A/Prof. Michelle Cluver of Swinburne University of Technology
- Software that enables ‘impossible’ research, by Dr Manodeep Sinha of Swinburne University of Technology.
The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) honoured these 6 astronomers at its Annual Scientific Meeting in July at the Macquarie University Wallumattagal Campus in Sydney.
“The research recognised in the awards goes to the heart of some of the biggest questions in astronomy today – such as the nature of dark matter and the evolution of the earliest stars and galaxies – vastly increasing our understanding of the Universe,” says ASA President Professor John Lattanzio.
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