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A pair of Sydney PhD students helped sharpen the view of humanity’s most powerful space observatory – without leaving Earth. As an indelible reminder of this thrilling result, Louis Desdoigts, now a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden in the Netherlands, and his colleague Max Charles, had tattoos of the instrument their work has repaired inked on …

The legendary astrophysicist who discovered pulsars in 1967 has been recognised for her outstanding contributions and advocacy.

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell CH DBE FRS FRSE FInstP has been admitted to the degree of Doctor of Science (honoris causa) by the University of Sydney. 

She was honoured at a ceremony on Tuesday, October 14 for her eminent contributions to the field of astrophysics, advocacy of under-represented students in the STEMM disciplines and as an inspirational role model for women in science.

Congrats to Peter who was awarded the Michelson Prize for his theoretical work, instrumentation, science and student training in the field of interferometry. “Tuthill has contributed to theoretical work, instrumentation, science and student training in the field of interferometry. He has notably participated in many facilities, from COAST to CHARA and the VLTI ; the …

Manisha got some good media coverage for her discovery of an unusual radio transient; her Conversation article was the most-read Australian/NZ article of the week when it was published. See the article here: https://theconversation.com/a-strange-intermittent-radio-signal-from-space-has-astronomers-puzzled-231385

This year during Science Week the astronomers of the Sydney Institute for Astronomy have specifically set aside the time to bring our exciting science into the community. If your organisation is fascinated by space, intrigued by the universe or dazzled by the solar system—why not ask for an astronomer? An in-person or virtual visit from …

Congratulations to SIfA  PhD students – Simon Weng & Emily Kerrison – chosen as part of the group of ten ECRs to attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting: Ms Emily Kerrison of the University of Sydney, who is a PhD student in radio astronomy, using telescopes in Western Australia and around the world to hunt down supermassive …

Congrats to Kovi Rose whose recent paper got some good media coverage We have identified the coldest star ever found to produce radio waves – a brown dwarf too small to be a regular star and too massive to be a planet. Our findings, published today in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, detail the detection of pulsed radio …

Congratulations to Manisha who was part of a recent paper published in Nature this month:  This object belongs to a new class of radio transients of which only 3 are now known. Manisha found one source and Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR) found two sources. Abstract Several long-period radio transients have recently been discovered, with strongly polarized coherent …

 Research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers, has just released the 2023 Edition Ranking of Best Scientists in the field of Physics. Congratulations to Joss Bland-Hawthorn who ranked #204 in the world ranking and #1 in Australia and has also been recognized with their Physics Leader Award for 2023.  The ranking is based on D-index (Discipline …