Stories of Australian Astronomy 2012 is a collection of stories of Australian astronomy from Science in Public. Please feel free to follow up with any organisation whose work captures your interest.
Please find below a contents page that links to the individual stories found in this publication.
If you’d prefer to read these stories in print format, a PDF of the print version is also available.
Our Universe is getting bigger, faster
- Our expanding Universe
- Galaxies point the way to dark energy
- Spinning galaxies reveal missing matter
- Ten times more galaxies
- Measuring the Universe from start to finish
Dreaming of the sky: Indigenous astronomy
Casting light: Optical astronomy
- From mapping a continent to surveying the Universe
- Mount Stromlo Observatory rising from the ashes
- Australian company brings the Universe within range
- SkyMapper’s 268-megapixel camera
- Keck telescope dons a mask
- Seeing a beach ball on the moon
- Bringing dark corners of the universe to light
- Starquakes reveal family secrets
- Sifting sky data
- Is the Red Rectangle a cosmic Rosetta Stone?
- The destruction of a star
The art of astronomy
Australian astronomers take on the Universe
Understanding our home: the Milky Way
- Our gas-guzzling galaxy
- Galactic archaeology— digging into the Milky Way’s past
- Profiling and fingerprinting the stars
- Stellar immigration
Planets
The search for other Earths
Inspiring the next generation
From Antarctica to the Outback
- Antarctica provides a clear view of the heavens
- Japanese spacecraft calls Australia home
- Alice Springs —gateway to the stars
Radio astronomy
- Radio astronomy’s rapid growth down under
- Recording the impact of a super-massive black hole
- Mega star nursery gives birth to new knowledge
- Supercomputers bring theory to life
- PlayStation graphics chips drive astronomy supercomputer
- Putting Einstein to the ultimate test
Looking forward to the Square Kilometre Array
- Big science tackling the big questions
- Australia’s SKA demonstrator already booked out
- Tracing cosmic rays from radio pulses
- Managing a data mountain
- Telescope of tiles