18 April 2018
Ambitious Galactic survey to help find Sun's lost family
... 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 using fibre...
19 May 2016
Astronomers find a group of stars dying too early
...'s biggest telescopes and a new tool for making breakthrough discoveries," said Dr De Silva from the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) and the University of Sydney. Naturally, further observations are required to ascertain the scale of this...