The Astronomical Society of Australia is an organisation whose members contribute to the advancement of Australian astronomy and related sciences.
Joined December 2014
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10 Jul 2024
From @abcnews, featuring @AstroSocAus Council Member @nightskymelb: "Exploding nova T Coronae Borealis could be on show for the first time in 80 years. Here's how to spot it" abc.net.au/news/science/2024…
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8 Jul 2024
A theoretical sample of radio galaxies and how they influence their neighbourhood got Sophie Young (@UTAS_) the Bok Prize for outstanding research by an honours student.
Congratulations Sophie.
Read more about all six winners of the ASA astronomy prizes: aip.org.au/News/13377131
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8 Jul 2024
17mil social media views & millions more via news media is part of @SaraWebbScience's (@Swinburne) impressive outreach presence.
Congrats to Sara for the David Allen Prize for exceptional achievement in astronomy communication by @AstroSocAus.
Read more: aip.org.au/News/13377131
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1 Jul 2024
A huge congratulations to astrophysics Honours graduate Sophie Young who has received the prestigious @AstroSocAus 2024 Bart Bok Prize for her research exploring the distant Universe 👏
Read more: utas.au/BartBokPrize
ALT Sophie Young in formal attire smiling and holding a medal in a blue medal case.
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28 Jun 2024
The recipients are:
@SaraWebbScience @MatthewColless @shyam_astro @astrophyzic @aaronrobotham @CFederrath @Astro_Katherine & Sophie Young from @Swinburne @ANUmedia @UTAS_ @RutgersU @CSIRO @UWANews @ICRAR
Highly commended: @SabineBellstedt @parallel_v Tamsyn O’Beirne
More at scienceinpublic.com.au/media…
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28 Jun 2024
Very impressed by the @futuremeetings team to enable networking at the annual @AstroSocAus meeting (using @Spatial_io)!
Here's my avatar at the CO2 emission comparison from an in-person vs. virtual #ASA2024 meeting (created by TFOM member Glen).
ALT Screenshot of an avatar looking up to a sky-reaching column representing carbon emissions for the case of an in-person ASA 2024 meeting.
ALT Screenshot of an avatar standing on a small cube that represents the carbon emissions from the ASA 2024 meeting in the virtual format.
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26 Jun 2024
🎉 Congrats to OzGrav affiliate @SaraWebbScience on winning the David Allen Prize! Sara has been recognised for her impressive outreach presence, covering critical topics such as Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Women in Astronomy, and the Mysteries of the Universe 🙌
@AstroSocAus
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25 Jun 2024
Congratulations to our astronomer Dr Andrew Zic @astrophyzic, for receiving the @AstroSocAus Louise Webster Prize 2024! Andrew is using observations of pulsars to search for gravitational waves. More at scienceinpublic.com.au/media…
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24 Jun 2024
Congratulations to five @ARC_ASTRO3D-affiliated researchers for awards @AstroSocAus announced today! Matthew Colless (ANU), Kate Harborne (UWA), Aaron Rowbotham (UWA), Christoph Federrath (ANU) and Tamsyn O'Beirne. 🤩
astro3d.org.au/national-reco…
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21 Jun 2024
I was recently commissioned to design this artwork for the @AstroSocAus Annual Science Meeting which is happening online next week ✨
If you're attending #ASA2024, come and say hi at the @futuremeetings virtual booth!
#SciArt #SciComm
ALT A logo of block letters "ASA2024" on a starry background of the Milky Way. Each of the letters is a different muted colour of the rainbow and contains an illustration including a radio telescope, a computer with a cosmic ray diagram, an observatory telescope, exoplanets, a person watching meteorites in a VR headset, a spiral galaxy, and the Southern Cross
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Interested in submitting your article to Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia? Click here for more information.
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#Astronomy #ASA @AstroSocAus
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13 Nov 2023
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#Astrofest2023 is THIS MONTH! Join us at Curtin Stadium on November 18 for a FREE night of telescopes and talks, sky photos and sci-fi costumes, family-friendly activities and food trucks! Details & registration at astronomywa.net.au/astrofest
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"When I was a child in the 1970s, seeing a satellite pass overhead in the night sky was a rare event. Now it is commonplace..."
@CurtinUni's @stingay explains how Starlink satellites are "leaking" signals that interfere with radio telescopes.
theconversation.com/starlink…
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31 Oct 2023
We're advertising!! Lot's of postdoc positions open within OzGrav, including two at Monash! The Monash job ad is linked below, and other jobs linked in the thread. Please pass this on, and get in touch if interested! @ARC_OzGRav @MonashAstro
Monash: careers.pageuppeople.com/513…
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13 Sep 2023
Some kangaroos on the hop near our #ASKAP antenna 24, Janimaarnu, at #Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, our Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory csiro.au/en/about/facilities…
ALT A single dish-like antenna sits on a concrete pillar pointing to the sky. At the bottom left of the image are kangaroos hopping away from the structure.
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22 Aug 2023
During the 2020 Rapid #ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS) around 3 million galaxies across the entire southern sky were mapped in just 300 hours. A million of them had never been seen before! More on #RACS: research.csiro.au/racs/
ALT Four dish-like antennas pointing to the sky. The night sky is filled with stars and clouds.
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23 Aug 2023
Check out my new post on The Conversation @ConversationEDU: Russia has declared a new space race, hoping to join forces with China. Here's why that's unlikely theconversation.com/russia-h… @MQSciEng @MQPhysAstro
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6 Aug 2023
🌌 Discover the mind-bending concept of "gravitational-wave memory"! Astrophysicists, including OzGrav's A/Prof Paul Lasky, explore how colliding black holes may leave lasting imprints on space-time. Learn more: newscientist.com/article/mg2…
@LaskyPaul @MonashUni @newscientist
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8 Aug 2023
☄️Did you catch Melbourne's light show last night? Experts @SansomScience @CurtinUni @astrogin @Swinburne @Macquarie_Uni @drspacejunk @flinders @mjibrown @MonashUni and @tallstarman explain what was likely crashing through our atmosphere
👀it here:
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