Last week marked three years until the 2028 Australian eclipse! ☀️🌑🌏
In just under three years, on 22 July 2028, Australia will experience one of nature’s most breathtaking phenomena – a total solar eclipse.
🔗 Read more here:
eclipse.asa.astronomy.org.au/three-years-...
🏅 Anne Green Prize for a Significant Advance or Accomplishment by a Mid-Career Scientist 🏅
Models of galaxy formation across cosmic epochs, A/Prof Claudia Lagos @cdplagos.bsky.social, ICRAR/ UWA
📖 Learn more about SHARK: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018MNRA...
Congratulations, Claudia! 👏 🎉 🏆
🏅 Charlene Heisler Prize for Outstanding PhD Thesis 🏅
🌌 Detecting gravitational waves with pulsars, Dr Matthew Miles @astromattmiles.bsky.social, Swinburne University (now at Vanderbilt University, USA)
Congratulations, Matthew! 👏 🎉 🏆
🏅 Emerging Leaders in Astronomy Software Development Prize sponsored by Australian Research Data Commons 🏅
🌌 Cosmic pulses and stellar bursts: a tool for decoding radio transients, Dr Joshua Preston Pritchard, CSIRO
💻 Check out the code here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Congratulations, Joshua! 👏 🎉 🏆
🏅 Bok Prize for Outstanding Research by an Honours Student or eligible Masters Student 🏅
🌌 Our wandering neighbours – the Hercules stream, Li Yusen, The Australian National University
Congratulations, Yusen! 👏 🎉 🏆
A panel of three plots. Left: A dynamic spectrum of a T8 dwarf, generated by the software package dstools. The x-axis is time in hours, the y axis is frequency in MHz. The colour scheme shows flux density from negative (red) to positive (blue) Right: Two image cutouts of the source (a T8 dwarf star) showing the source in total intensity and circular polarisation. Reference: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ...951L..43R/abstract
Congratulations to my former student Joshua Pritchard for winning this year's @astrosocaus.bsky.social "Emerging Leaders in Astronomy Software Development Prize" for his software package "DStools".
Here's a short write-up:
www.atnf.csiro.au/news/recogni...
#RadioAstronomy
Today marks the release of the @science.org.au 2026-2035 decadal plan for astronomy 🎉 It was officially launched by NCA Chair @drgin.bsky.social, and provides a strategic vision for Australian astronomy over the coming decade. Thank you to all involved! 👏 🌌 🎊
www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...
🏅 Louise Webster Prize for Outstanding Research by a Scientist Early in their Post-Doctoral Career 🏅
🌌 Galactic winds stopped big galaxies from growing, Dr Rebecca Davies, Swinburne University
📖 Read the paper here: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024MNRA...
Congratulations, Rebecca! 👏 🎉 🏆
Social media image of the six ASA prizewinners alongside the ASA logo.
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2025 ASA prizes: Li Yusen, Dr Matthew Miles @astromattmiles.bsky.social, Dr Rebecca Davies, A/Prof Claudio Lagos @cdplagos.bsky.social, Dr Joshua Pritchard and Prof Naomi McClure-Griffiths 👏🏅 Find out more: www.scienceinpublic.com.au/media-releas...
