18 April 2018
Ambitious Galactic survey to help find Sun's lost family
...collect enough photons of light for each star in order to scrutinise its spectra. Luckily the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) at the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) near Coonabarabran, NSW, is equipped to observe 360 stars at the same time...
19 May 2016
Astronomers find a group of stars dying too early
Using a new instrument called a high efficiency and resolution multi-element spectrograph (HERMES), fitted to the Anglo Australian Telescope (AAT), an international team of researchers have made a surprising discovery that a large group of stars are...
26 April 2017
Cold Spot in CMB could be evidence for a multiverse
... redshifts – the stretching of light – of 7,000 galaxies, harvested 300 at a time using a spectrograph deployed on the Anglo-Australian Telescope, the team looked at the pattern of clusters of galaxies in the foreground of the CMB Cold Spot, compared...
22 March 2019
Citizen science project turns research into a quest
...” around the world to become Astro Questers. After 210 nights of observations, over seven years, from the Anglo-Australian Telescope and supplemented by previous galaxy surveys, the center would like help analyzing the images of galaxies billions...
