Pro Vice-Chancellor Flagship Initiatives, Swinburne University of Technology
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The SAGE Symposium in Brisbane this year brought together hundreds of interested parties across STEM to share and learn best practice in gender and diversity equity.
Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE)
To be a champion of science you must also be a champion of diversity in science.
The density of gas in and around a simulated galaxy just over a billion years after the Big Bang. New gas is arriving at too great a rate for the galaxy to convert it into stars and the gas piles up.
Alan Duffy/Swinburne University
In the early Universe torrents of infalling gas outpace the ability of young galaxies to raise their demand of forming new stars to meet the supply, the result is a recession for the galactic economy.
Science and technology have helped us picture that we all live together on a single world.
NASA / Bill Anders
Making science a ratings grab is a key part of reversing its declines in society and schools.
Galaxy cluster MACS 0416 bends light around it due to huge amounts of dark matter, indicated in cyan, acting as a magnifying lens for any background objects in the magenta regions.
STScI/NASA/CATS Team/R. Livermore (UT Austin)
Ingenious use of a naturally occurring cosmic magnifying glass suggests baby galaxies are a leading culprit for bringing light to our Universe’s darkest moment.
The annular solar eclipse of 4th January 2011 as seen by the Hinode satellite. The Moon is slightly more distant from Earth than in a total eclipse allowing a ring of sunlight to appear around the dark shadow of the Moon.
NASA/Hinode/XRT
Meteor showers, eclipses, epic space missions and more, 2017 will be worth looking up for.
The gas giant Saturn revealed in all its splendour by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. This vantage point revealed the hexagonal storm raging on the pole as well as the innermost rings surrounding the planet.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Fuel-less rockets, Thanksgiving space-treats and threading an interplanetary needle, space never gets dull.
False colour image of Mercury taken by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft. Without a hot central core this should be a geologically dead world yet recent images suggest it’s still active.
NASA/JHUAPL/Carnegie Institution of Washington/USGS/Arizona State University
The Frontier Field seen by Hubble has a galaxy cluster which acts as a natural lens, magnifying even more distant galaxies into view from just several hundred million years after the Big Bang.
The core of the Crab Nebula reveals outflowing material, powered by the central neutron star. This is a timelapse of Hubble Space Telescope images taken each decade and coloured separately revealing the rainbow pattern as the fast moving material changes between frames.
NASA / ESA
The beautiful image from Hubble hides a monster at its heart, as rainbow-coloured winds are blown outwards by the tremendous energies of a neutron star.
