Volunteers wanted to help unlock the secrets of our Universe
March 22, 2019Scientists are appealing for public help on one of the biggest astronomy projects of the next ten years. In a new citizen science project launched today—known as AstroQuest—researchers are looking for volunteers to study images of galaxies and figure out which light is coming from which galaxy.
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.
Iona students publish star research
November 13, 2018Students at Iona Presentation College have become published astronomers after submitting their observations of stars to a 100-year-old astronomical organisation.