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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...

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A new plan for Australia to remain an astronomy world-leader The plan provides the vision and priorities for Australian astronomy over the coming decade. Cover artwork by Noeleen Hamlett, Wajarri Yamaji. Australian scientists are on the verge of answering

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...