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25.01.2022 Jean-Pierre Macquart was a prominent member of Australia's astronomical community and his passing will be mourned by astronomers within Australia and internationally. Our sincerest condolences to his family at this most difficult of times.

17.01.2022 Nothing can escape a black hole. So what happens when two black holes meet? Around 7 billion years ago two mammoth black holes collided... and now, gravitational wave scientists have detected the moment it happened.

17.01.2022 The recipient of The Australian Academy of Science's Pawsey Medal for 2020 is Associate Professor Adam Deller, who studies the most compact objects in the universe: neutron stars and black holes. Instrumentation developed by him has been used by major astronomical facilities across the globe. His own usage of these facilities has led to breakthroughs including a time-lapse movie of the high-speed material launched by merging neutron stars in a galaxy 125 million light years a...way, which determined the orientation of the system first detected via the burst of gravitational waves emitted when they merged. Closer to home, he has pinpointed the location of neutron stars within the Milky Way galaxy with unprecedented precision, using radio observations so precise they could discern motion no greater than the width of a human hair at a distance of 2,000 km. See more

10.01.2022 "The iconic Parkes radio telescope, otherwise known as The Dish, has been officially recognised for its contribution to Australian astronomy and humankind’s understanding of the Universe with its addition to the National Heritage List." https://www.csiro.au//CSIRO-Parkes-radio-telescope-added-t

10.01.2022 Unfortunately Dick Hunstead, an esteemed member of Australia's astronomical community has passed away. He had a long and superb research career, during which he mentored many young scientists (many of whom are now members of the Astronomical Society of Australia). He was also exceptionally generous, and in 2017 Dick and his wife Penny donated $1.4 million from the sale of their home to support the next generation of young astrophysicists.