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.
Thousands of galaxies classified in a blink of an eye
July 8, 2021Astronomers have designed and trained a computer program which can classify tens of thousands of galaxies in just a few seconds, a task that usually takes months to accomplish.
Big galaxies steal star-forming gas from their smaller neighbours
February 23, 2021Large galaxies are known to strip the gas that occupies the space between the stars of smaller satellite galaxies. In research published today, astronomers have…
