Canberra, Australia
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Progress on the Giant Magellan Telescope continues β with major advancements across adaptive optics and instrumentation.
Explore highlights from our latest Milestones newsletter:
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Progress on adaptive secondary mirrors
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GMTNIRS spectrograph cameras completed
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Progress on GMACS test stand and instrument mount frame
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MANIFEST conceptual design review completed
Read more in the full Milestones newsletter. β¬οΈ
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Maximizing returns on @NSF investments, the Giant Magellan Telescope will coordinate with todayβs most powerful observatoriesβincluding @NASA's JWST, @VRubinObs, @almaobs, @LIGO, and @ESO's E-ELT.
Explore how synergy powers discovery: giantmagellan.org/2025/04/27β¦ #giantdiscoveries
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Peter Duttonβs track record on Medicare isnβt just bad β itβs dangerous. Letβs not forget it this election.
#CostofDutton #Auspol #Ausvotes #DontRiskDutton #WeCantAffordDutton
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Mapping millions of galaxies to understand our Universe:
Dr Cullan Howlett @UQscience wins Ruby Payne-Scott Award for Excellence in Early-Career Research, recognising his work leading to new insights into the ingredients & forces that make up our Universe.
aip.org.au/News/13401467
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Announcing a call for applications for a new AAL CEO. This is an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to take on an important leadership role in the Australian astronomy community. For details and a link to the PD, see our website: astronomyaustralia.org.au/blβ¦
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How do you quantify spatial correlation in your astro subfield? After we realized that our methods for doing this were capturing the exact same information, Benji and I wrote a note to translate commonly used methods in astrophysics. It's on the arXiv now: arxiv.org/abs/2407.14068
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βWe measure the turbulence in the atmosphere 2,000 times a second, and we change the curvature of the mirrors 2,000 times a second to take out the turbulence in the atmosphere,β shares Giant Magellan Chief Scientist Rebecca Bernstein with @ASCETweets. asce.org/publications-and-neβ¦
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The Giant Magellanβs primary mirrors are the worldβs largest and most challenging optics ever produced. All seven have been cast at the @uarizona Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab. Read more about what these giant optics will do: giantmagellan.org/telescope-β¦
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Our support for science, underpinned by rigorous processes, is unequivocal. Those who seek to mislead or distort scientific evidence undermine public trust in science. It is a dangerous trend and must be called out.Β This is a time when policymakers need to inform their decisions with rigorously gathered evidence, rather than in response to conspiracy and fearmongering.
Efforts to undermine science, undermine us all.
Science provides the data and models that allow society to tackle profound challenges. To be useful, science requires community trust.
Our Chief Executive has issued an open letter defending our scientists and organisation against unfounded criticism. csiro.au/en/news/All/News/20β¦
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As a founding partner of @giantmagellan, ANU is excited to welcome Taiwan's Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics to the team. π
Here's to an unrivalled and never-before-seen view of our skies!
Learn more about GMT and its work at: giantmagellan.org/
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Today, we welcome Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics into our consortium of international research institutions, expanding our global collaboration for the advancement of science. giantmagellan.org/2024/02/20β¦
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BREAKING: 2023 has officially been declared as the hottest year on record, weeks before the yearβs end. The broken record comes as a heatwave scorches large swathes of the country, threatening to push temperatures into the 40βs in Sydney.
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One of the many benefits of full @ESO membership for Australia would be the opportunity to access time on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) β which feels like a very apt name for this incredible piece of infrastructure, currently under construction in Armazones, Chile.
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Dr Stefania Barsanti from @ARC_ASTRO3D & @StromloANU takes us through a night in the life of an astronomer at Siding Spring Observatory β¨
science.anu.edu.au/news-evenβ¦
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Reading this article, I achieved zenlike clarity on why Delta is confident it can screw its loyalty program members and cardholders with zero repercussions. Did you know nearly 1% of total US GDP is charged to Delta branded Amex cards?
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Nick Kaiser, Cosmologist - A superb obit. in the Guardian by John Peacock (Edinburgh):
theguardian.com/science/2023β¦
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It's been almost a decade, but the GALAH survey has just passed ONE MILLION stellar spectra. Incredible dramas with forest fires, equipment crashes, failures, covid, etc. but an amazing team (astronomers, AAO/AAT engineers) finally got to this important landmark...
@galahsurvey
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ESO's #ELT is now half completed!
The #BiggestEyeOnTheSky is advancing at a good pace in areas such as:
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πΏTelescope mirrors
πΉοΈ Control system
π¦Ύ First scientific instruments
πSupport infrastructure
More info β‘οΈ eso.org/public/chile/news/esβ¦
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@CGA_ANU is advertising an amazing opportunity to become a Professor / Director at the Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics at one of Australia's top universities. Applications from underrepresented backgrounds are strongly encouraged jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/professβ¦
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A rather lovely day @OxfordPhysics celebrating the career of retiring Roger Davies. A room full of all sorts of astronomical luminaries and talks on Rogerβs life, science and times.
