Contents: Stories of Australian Astronomy 2012
Stories of Australian Astronomy 2012 is the latest collection of stories of Australian science from Science in Public. Please feel free to follow up with any organisation whose work captures your interest.
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





