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VIDEO: This three-and-a-half minute video shows highlights of researchers adjusting and deploying the SAMI instrument at the Anglo Australian Telescope at Siding Spring University in New South Wales, Australia.
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Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (Australian Astronomical Observatory / Macquarie University)
The complex mechanics determining how galaxies spin, grow, cluster and die have been revealed following the release of all the data gathered during a massive seven-year Australian-led astronomy research project.
The scientists observed 13 galaxies at a time, building to a total of 3068, using a custom-built instrument called the Sydney-AAO Multi-Object Integral-Field Spectrograph (SAMI), connected to the 4-metre Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) at Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales. The telescope is operated by the Australian National University.