Our expertise spans cosmology, extragalactic astronomy, extreme objects, relativistic astrophysics, cultural astronomy, virtual observatories, and software telescopes. We also develop innovative miniaturised payloads and technological solutions for nanosatellites, enabling scientific investigations, commercial opportunities, and defence applications.
Research groups and labs
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Astrophysics
The Astrophysics research group spans cosmology, extragalactic astronomy, extreme objects, relativistic astrophysics, cultural astronomy, and knowledge management associated with virtual observatories and software telescopes.
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Extragalactic Astrophysics
With about 50 billion galaxies, our observable Universe is full of mysteries that involve physics from atomic processes and interactions between matter and light on the microscopic level, to gravitational forces acting over trillions of trillions of kilometres.
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High Energy Astrophysics
A diverse research area concerned with modelling phenomena like cosmic-ray shock acceleration, supernovae and other cosmic explosions, relativistic winds and jets, accretion disks, extreme gravitational and magnetic fields, non-thermal and coherent radiation mechanisms, and the equation of state of bulk nuclear matter.
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Melbourne Space Lab
Melbourne Space Laboratory develops innovative miniaturised payloads and technological solutions for nanosatellites, enabling scientific investigations, commercial opportunities and defence applications traditionally restricted to substantially larger and more expensive satellites.
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