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Four people are on stage seated on chairs.
Thursday, 12 Mar 2026

An opera singer, a vet and a winemaker walked onto a stage. It sounds like the start of a joke. Instead, what unfolded was a thoughtful discussion about curiosity, collaboration and the unpredictable path to scientific discovery.

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Observatory in the snow
Friday, 10 Oct 2025

A world-first discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed.

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Illustration of a black hole
Thursday, 25 Sep 2025

One of the most powerful black holes in the universe is belching out gas at speeds of up to 10,000 kilometres per second, making its estimated mass more than 10 times lower than first thought.

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galaxy pair NGC5713/19

Dancing dwarf galaxies predict our Milky Way's future

A collaborative survey involving the Australian National University (ANU), the University of Queensland, and others, has provided a more detailed…
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Rosella

iLAuNCH Trailblazer program and Rosella

The Rosella program, developed in partnership with home-grown and international industry groups, will deliver a quasi-commercial detector control…
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A night in the life of an astronomer

A night in the life of an Astronomer

ANU College of Science and Medicine recently did a feature on RSAA Researcher, Dr Stefania Barsanti, observing on Australia's largest optical…
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Dr Di Li
24 Mar 2026 | 11am

RSAA Colloquium: Di Li (Tsinghua U.)

The Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey (CRAFTS) and a finding chart for SKA.
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Rebecca Nealon (Monash U.)
31 Mar 2026 | 11am
SN1987A
22 Feb 2027 | 9am - 26 Feb 2027 | 5pm

Supernovae Near and Far, celebrating the achievements of Brian Schmidt and the 40th anniversary of SN1987A

The 23rd of February 2027 marks the 40th anniversary of the arrival of Supernovae 1987A. That same week coincides with the 60th birthday of Brian Schmidt who shared the Nobel Prize for observations which led to the discovery of the accelerating universe.

Please use the "Register" button to express your interest in attending. An official registration form will be sent out closer to the date.
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