The first galaxies in the universe created bubbles of ionized gas that overlapped with each other, which led to the largest phase transition in the history of the universe known as the epoch of reionization (EoR). However, we don't know much about the galaxies involved in the phase-transition...Read More
It has been known for several decades that globular clusters in the Milky Way display multiple stellar populations. This refers to a cluster having two main stellar groups: a first generation (1G), which are stars that are chemically similar to Milky Way halo stars, and a second generation...Read More
In our final AAL ESO Blog post for 2022, Romy Pearse (AAL Communications Manager) looks back on a recent highly productive visit to Australia by a delegation led by the Director General of ESO, Prof. Xavier Barcons.Read More
In lieu of an AAL ESO Blog post this month, we encourage our community to read the article that appeared recently in The Conversation by Prof. Michael Murphy from Swinburne University of Technology.Read More
As part of AAL's role in assisting the Dept of Industry, Science and Resources in managing Australia's Strategic Partnership with ESO, we monitor not just the proposal submissions and allocations but also any refereed publications involving Australian-based astronomers that use data from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and...Read More
With the rapid development of stellar spectroscopy in the past decade, many stellar spectroscopic surveys, for example LAMOST, GALAH and APOGEE, combined with the astrometric information of Gaia have played a pivotal role in explaining the chemo-dynamic evolution of the Milky Way.Read More
In lieu of an AAL ESO Blog post this month, we encourage our community to take a look at the exciting science to be enabled by the recent awarding of ESO Large Programme status to not one, but two Australian-led projects using MUSE, the most-oversubscribed instrument on the...Read More
Gravitational lenses are powerful cosmic "magnifying glasses" that can be used to explore a broad range of astrophysical phenomena in both the background lensed galaxy (the "source") and the foreground lens (the "deflector").Read More
The Australian-led international consortium building the MAVIS (Multi-conjugate adaptive optics Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph) instrument for the European Southern Observatory (ESO) gathered together recently for a project ‘Busy Week’ - five days of intensive activity and interaction to progress on key aspects of the project.Read More
Lithium is the heaviest element produced in Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). As such, it is a unique element that can be used to study the conditions of the Big Bang. Standard BBN theory produced mostly hydrogen and helium, with trace amounts of lithium - about 1 in 10...Read More
