ICRAR astronomer awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship
September 2, 2022Professor Simon Driver has been awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship for his project, Unveiling the mass of the Universe: stars, gas, plasma and dark matter.
Australia delivers critical subsystem for VISTA telescope
October 28, 2021An Australian-built major subsystem for the European Southern Observatory’s 4MOST instrument has arrived in Germany at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) ready for testing prior to installation on the four-metre VISTA telescope located in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
4MOST introduced to the scientific community
March 7, 20194MOST will be the largest spectroscopic survey facility of its kind in the Southern hemisphere and address today’s most pressing astronomical questions in the fields of Galactic archaeology, high-energy astrophysics, galaxy evolution and cosmology.