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Dark matter in colliding galaxy clusters, travelling back to the cosmic dawn, enabling ‘impossible’ research, and more

Astronomical Society of Australia

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  • How dark matter behaves in colliding galaxy clusters, explained by UWA/ICRAR student William McDonald
  • Why the Universe’s earliest stars are so elusive, by Dr Piyush Sharda of ANU (now working at Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands)
  • A sharper focus on when the Universe lit up, by Dr Nichole Barry of Curtin University/ICRAR
  • The chemistry of starlight helps explain our galaxy’s evolution, says Dr Sven Buder of ANU
  • A mission to study 6 million galaxies in 5 years, by A/Prof. Michelle Cluver of Swinburne University of Technology
  • Software that enables ‘impossible’ research, by Dr Manodeep Sinha of Swinburne University of Technology.

The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) will honour the 6 at its Annual Scientific Meeting at the Macquarie University Wallumattagal Campus in Sydney 3-7 July 2023.

“The research recognised in the awards goes to the heart of some of the biggest questions in astronomy today – such as the nature of dark matter and the evolution of the earliest stars and galaxies – vastly increasing our understanding of the Universe,” says ASA President Professor John Lattanzio.

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