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Student astronomer finds galactic missing matter

8 February 2021 -
Half of the universe's baryonic matter is 'missing', but University of Sydney PhD student Yuanming Wang has developed an ingenious method to help track it down.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2021/02/08/student-astronomer-finds-galactic-missing-matter-askap-radio-astronomy.html
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2018 events

Wednesday May 15, 2024
Australian dramatist Alana Valentine, cosmologist Geraint Lewis, poet Tricia Dearborn and physicist Zdenka Kuncic explore some home truths as they face off for a lively debate about the authenticity of art
www.sydney.edu.au/engage/events-sponsorships/sydney-ideas/2018.html
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50th anniversary of the moon landing: Sydney experts weigh in

19 July 2019 -
Astrophysicist Professor Geraint Lewis is an expert on the role of dark energy and dark matter on the evolution and ultimate fate of the universe.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2019/07/19/50th-anniversary-of-the-moon-landing-Sydney-experts-weigh-in.html
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Galactic fireworks: stunning features of nearby galaxies revealed

16 July 2021 -
Using the best telescopes on Earth and in space, Dr Rebecca McElroy from the University of Sydney is part of the international PHANGS team unlocking the secrets of how stars are born. Look at the amazing images of nearby galaxies they have created.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2021/07/17/galactic-fireworks-stunning-features-nearby-galaxies-phangs-muse-eso-sifa.html
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New type of pulsating star discovered

10 March 2020 -
For 40 years, scientists have thought such a star existed, now an international team including astronomers from the University of Sydney have detected a star that pulsates on just one side. They expect to find more.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/03/10/astronomy-new-type-of-pulsating-star-discovered.html
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Sydney researchers ranked among global elite

6 September 2023 -
Professor Geraint Lewis.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2022/11/16/sydney-researchers-ranked-among-global-elite.html
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Festival of science, medicine and health fortnight begins

6 August 2018 -
The End of Time: Future History of the Universe (Prof Geraint Lewis).
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2018/08/03/festival-of-science--medicine-and-health-fortnight-begins.html
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Worlds next door: looking for habitable planets at Alpha Centauri

23 August 2022 -
In collaboration with the Breakthrough Initiative, Saber Astronautics and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Professor Peter Tuthill at the University of Sydney is leading TOLIMAN, a project to discover if the nearest stars have planets that could
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2021/11/17/worlds-next-door-habitable-planets-alpha-centauri-exoplanets-breakthrough.html
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Feeling glum? 10 positive stories you may have missed

14 August 2020 -
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is still some good happening in the world. Here are ten of the University of Sydney's most promising and positive stories that you may have missed.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/08/11/feeling-glum--10-positive-stories-you-may-have-missed.html
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Strange radio waves emerge from direction of the galactic centre

15 October 2021 -
A student at the University of Sydney has discovered strange radio signals emerging from deep inside the Milky Way. They fit no understood pattern of variable radio source and could suggest a new class of stellar object.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2021/10/12/strange-radiowaves-galactic-centre-askap-j173608-2-321635.html