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Macquarie University Astronomy Research Centre

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: 98504166

Address: Macquarie University 2109 Sydney, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.physics.mq.edu.au/astronomy

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24.01.2022 "The Macquarie Observatory invites you to observe the cosmos with your own eyes, and marvel at the wonders of the universe! Observing sessions on each Friday night, plus select Thursdays (pending cloudless skies). Limited places, bookings essential. More info and tickets:"

22.01.2022 Richard McDermid and Lee Spitler have recently had quite a bit of media interest in the press release related to their article published in Nature last week. http://mq.edu.au//dwarf-galaxy-has-bizarre-supermassive-b/

21.01.2022 Thanks to everyone who helped on Astronomy Open Night!!! (photo by Brint Gardner) There will be more pictures to come...soonish...

20.01.2022 We have finalized the short talk program for Astronomy Open Night on 5 April.

19.01.2022 We have another interesting media release. This time involving Quentin Parker and Warren Reid. http://phys.org/news/2014-01-milky-shaken.html

19.01.2022 Thanks again to our volunteers.

18.01.2022 Congrats Lee http://www.aao.gov.au//2014-young-tall-poppy-science-award

17.01.2022 Welcome to Matt Owers who has joined us this week as Lecturer and ARC Future Fellow :)

17.01.2022 Orsola's article from the Conversation with Tanya Hill. http://theconversation.com/white-dwarf-merger-is-set-to-pro

16.01.2022 This about sums it up http://mq.edu.au//28/an-astronomical-week-snapped-on-cam/

15.01.2022 And for the scientists, the link to Richard and Lee's article in Nature: http://www.nature.com//jo/v513/n7518/full/nature13762.html

15.01.2022 The Physics and Astronomy Departmental Colloquium tomorrow is: Who: Prof. Bryan Gaensler (Centre for All-sky Astrophysics / The University of Sydney) When: 12pm, Tuesday September 2nd Where: E7B T4... Title: "Radio Polarimetry and Cosmic Magnetism"

14.01.2022 Fantastic talk by Todd Barber from JPL today about the Mars Rover Spirit and all the back stories!!

14.01.2022 Some of our awesome third year undergrad students at the AAO https://www.youtube.com/watch

12.01.2022 This week's AAAstro Seminar is Friday February 21 at 3pm in E6B 136. Speaker: Dr. Jan Staff Title: Eccentric binary interactions as origin of some optical transient phenomena and nebula formation

12.01.2022 Today's AAAstro Seminar at 3pm in the multipurpose room E6B 2.300. Roberto Iaconi Macquarie University... Title: Common envelope numerical simulations: What are we missing?

12.01.2022 Hi, Could ex students please message me as I have a load of questions I need to ask for the AAL Decadal survey? ~Amanda

11.01.2022 Daniela Carollo has appeared in Phys.Org with a piece on galactic archeology. http://phys.org//2014-05-galactic-archaeologists-uncover-i

11.01.2022 Check out Daniela Carollo's interview on The Academic Minute here: http://academicminute.org//daniela-carollo-macquarie-univ/

11.01.2022 We are all getting ready for the ASA ASM and the HWWS. Thanks to Dimitri Douchin for the pic :)

10.01.2022 This week's AAAstro Seminar at 3pm on Friday in the E6B 2.300 Multipurpose room. Speaker: Dr. Donald Goldsmith Title: DOES THE EARTH GO ROUND THE SUN? PRESENTING ASTRONOMY TO THE PUBLIC

10.01.2022 Another media release from Lee Spitler. Granny galaxies :) http://mq.edu.au//granny-galaxies-discovered-in-the-early/

08.01.2022 Sydney friends, come to see Todd Noaln's seminar (super cool planetary explorer from the US) today at 1PM in E7B T5 and again a public talk: a double act talk from Todd together with colleague Tom Nolan on Wednesday 6PM! http://events.mq.edu.au//event-summary-0e0a658a1c9b4de097d. Here are their bios: http://events.mq.edu.au//speakers-0e0a658a1c9b4de097d77375

06.01.2022 Our first AAAstro Seminar for the year is this Friday February 14 at 3pm in E6B 136. Speaker: Dr. Amy Kimball (CSIRO) Title: The Radio Luminosity Function of Optically Selected QSOs: Star Formation and AGNs

05.01.2022 And our very awesome Lee Spitler is now in the SMH (and The Age). http://www.smh.com.au//deep-space-studies-yield-startling-

04.01.2022 Astronomy Open Night this year is on 5 April 2014! We are looking for volunteers, so if you want to help out, let me know. ~ Amanda

04.01.2022 Today's AAAstro Seminar at 3pm in the multipurpose room E6B 2.300. Izabela Spaleniak Macquarie University... Title: On-chip, narrowband spectral filtering of multimode devices

04.01.2022 Here's Daniela's MQ media release complete with a pretty spiffy video http://mq.edu.au//the-halo-effect-galactic-breakthrough-s/

03.01.2022 The first awesome piece of news for the year is that Lee Spitler is part of the team that released this NASA media release: The NASA media release: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/05/... The Macquarie Uni media release: http://www.mq.edu.au//nasa-great-observatories-team-up-to/ More background material is available here: http://firstgalaxies.org/high-redshift-luminous-galaxies