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ANU researchers win nation’s most prestigious funding award
The fate of galaxies, building health equity for all and making new materials from “crystal chemistry” will be the focus of three major research projects at The Australian National University (ANU) receiving more than $9.7 million in Federal Government funding.
Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths, Professor Sharon Friel and Professor Yun Liu have all won prestigious Laureate Fellowships from the Australian Research Council – the nation’s top research funding award.
The three join 14 other Australian-based researchers sharing more than $53.7 million in funding. Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt congratulated all three ANU winners.
“ARC Laureate Fellowships are Australia’s most prestigious researching funding scheme, recognising the very best of the best,” he said.
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The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), a powerful telescope developed and operated by the country’s science agency CSIRO, became fully operational in February 2019 and has been conducting pilot surveys of the sky to map the structure and evolution of the Universe.
Recent research may hold the clue to an enigma that has been puzzling astronomers over the past few years.
A mysterious handful of huge, almost perfectly circular radio objects, located in a distant universe, are yet to be explained by science.
Now, a new one has been spotted and added to the list by a team of scientists, who posted their findings on 27 April to the preprint database arXiv. The research has since been accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. This discovery may be the first step towards finally findin
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9 February 2021
by: Adam D. Cohen
The authors of the winning paper were the first to pinpoint the origin of a non-repeating fast radio burst. | Neil Orman/AAAS
A team of astronomers and astrophysicists based at 21 research institutions around the world will receive the 2020 Newcomb Cleveland Prize, presented by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for a discovery that could improve our understanding of the structure of the Universe, as well as galaxy formation and evolution.
Each year since 1923, the Newcomb Cleveland Prize has honored the most impactful research paper published in the journal
Science. In this year’s winning paper, the authors described how they became the first to pinpoint the origin of a non-repeating fast radio burst (FRB). Though they last only a few milliseconds, FRBs are some of the brightest radio sources in the sky.
December 23, 2020
Astronomers used radio waves to study conditions in the vicinity of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our sun. The results suggest Proxima’s 2 known planets are likely bathed in intense radiation from this star, casting doubt on the planets’ potential for life.
Artist’s concept of huge flares on Proxima Centauri, which unleash ionizing radiation. This radiation could be dangerous for any possible life on planets orbiting close to the star. Image via NASA/ ESA/ G. Bacon (STScI)/
This month, even as some astronomers are talking about a possible mystery radio signal from Proxima Centauri – a signal of interest to astronomers who search for intelligent life beyond Earth – other astronomers are talking about space weather in the vicinity of this star, which is the nearest star to our sun. Space weather in Proxima’s vicinity, they are saying, might make life on its planets difficult or even impossible.