Congratulations to Peter for his Michelson Prize
20/08/2024
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,…
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Manisha’s discovery of an unusual radio transient in the media
20/08/2024
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…
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Book an Astronomer – Connecting to the Universe for Science Week 2024
09/04/2024
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…
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SIfA PhD students attended the Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting
02/04/2024
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…
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We’ve detected a star barely hotter than a pizza oven – the coldest ever found to emit radio waves
09/08/2023
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…
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A long-period radio transient active for three decades
08/08/2023
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…
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News
Many stars that now live near the Sun were born somewhere else in the Galaxy. Astronomers have just worked out how these migrants reached their new homes and what set them travelling – important details of our Galaxy’s story.
Galaxy’s arms elbow stars into our neighbourhood
A new study led by SIfA professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn shows evidence that a huge explosion occurred at the centre of our Galaxy. This explosion was so powerful that it could only have come from one thing: the supermassive black hole today lying dormant in the middle of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*.
An explosion at the centre of our Galaxy
SIfA Professor Geraint Lewis and his international team, including with SIfA PhD students Zhen Wen, have unravelled the cannibalistic past of the Andromeda galaxy. This study, published in Nature, analysed globular cluster data from the Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey (PAndAS) to reconstruct the times when Andromeda devoured small galaxies to grow its
The Cannibal Next Door
SIfA PhD candidate Andrew Zic A well-known star is behaving somewhat like a planet, a SIfA-led team has found. PhD candidate Andrew Zic and his collaborators have discovered pulsed radio emission from UV Ceti, a dwarf star with a mass just a tenth of the Sun’s. The emission has a
Tiny star behaves like both a sun and a planet
A Swinburne PhD student has built an automated system featuring artificial intelligence (AI) to detect and capture the details of fast radio bursts in real time. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious and powerful flashes of radio waves from space, thought to originate billions of light years from the Earth.
AI now detecting Fast Radio Bursts in real-time
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