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astronomy

How do black holes eat?

8 June 2010

Using galaxies as cosmic telescopes to reveal the diets of the black holes at the heart of every galaxy.
Anglo-Australian Observatory Astronomer David Floyd has been able to observe matter falling into a super-massive black hole – one of the Universe’s brightest objects.

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Fresh Scientists of 2010

26 May 2010

We are pleased to announce the Fresh Scientists of 2010:

Peter Domachuk, School of Physics, University of Sydney
Naomi McSweeney, School of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Australia
Andrew Dowdy, Bureau of Meteorology
Julien Ridoux, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne
Bridget Murphy, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney
Dave Ackland, Department of [...]

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Aussies plan for Mars weather forecasts

31 August 2004

Seeing Mars in a different light
 A team of Australian astronomers are developing a way of forecasting the weather on Mars – without putting their toes in space and have created beautiful images of our neighbouring planet.
 Their discoveries will help us determine if Mars was a kinder place for life in the past.
And by forecasting the [...]

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Astronomers shed light on the nature of dark matter

22 August 2002

Astronomers from the University of Melbourne are challenging the current thinking about the nature of the universe’s dark matter by checking out its effect on light.

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Black Holes are Pink

1 August 1999

When black holes rip stars and gas clouds to pieces, the debris gets so hot that it shrouds the black hole with a brilliant blue-white light. Or so everyone thought, until we discovered pink quasars; black holes glowing with a pink light so intense that they are amongst the pinkest objects in the Universe.

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Weather out of this world : the Turbulent Lives of Brown dwarfs

6 May 1999

Astronomers using the Anglo-Australian Telescope have found the first signs of weather outside the Solar System, on objects called ‘brown dwarfs’, which are like a cross between a Jupiter-like planet and a star.

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Kangaroos, Elephant Trunks, and Stars

10 May 1998

Astronomers Discover Menagerie of Hot Molecules
How are stars born? A new instrument, developed at UNSW is probing interstellar gas clouds to find out.

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Hidden galaxies in the local universe

7 May 1998

Australian telescope finds missing galaxies on our doorstep. NSW astronomers have found new galaxies originally thought to be stars. They think there could be 150,000 of them in our neighbourhood.

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