Macquarie University
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| Address | Balaclava Rd, Macquarie Park NSW 2109, Australia |
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| Phone | +61 2 9850 7111 |
| Vice Chancellors | S. Bruce Dowton |
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| ID | 1093836 |
About Macquarie University
Macquarie University is a public research university based in Sydney, Australia, in the suburb of Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney.
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Australia floods: 'I'm angry it's happening again'
... " We are all frustrated and we simply have to get the message out that we simply can t afford any more delay, " says Prof Lesley Hughes, a climate scientist and pro-vice chancellor at Macquarie University...
Extinction: meet the new poster animals of the nature
... Jennifer McGowan at the Australian Macquarie University...
ABC-raid: the Australian public broadcaster loses legal challenge
... I m not saying this is only about the current government, but we have seen an increasing authoritarian mood crept in the way that the media are from the government, said Prof Catharine Lumby from Macquarie University...
Australia bushfires: Fresh warnings in Queensland and New South Wales
... A firefighting plane dropped pink fire retardant in the area between Macquarie University and the Sydney Adventist Hospital in the South Turramurra suburb...
Australia bushfires: New South Wales braces for 'catastrophic' day
... Bushfires scorched parts of South Turramurra, an affluent suburb north of Sydney Earlier, residential areas of Sydney were doused in pink fire retardant A firefighting plane dropped pink fire retardant in the area between Macquarie University and the Sydney Adventist Hospital in the South Turramurra suburb...
'Red mercury': why does the myth persist?
... It s a game of con artists and the danger is that people are going to be swindled, that they might be robbed or mugged, or that they ll just waste their time, says Lisa Wynn, head of the anthropology department at Macquarie University in Sydney...
Hong Kong protests: How could China intervene?
... The PLA has had about 5,000 personnel based in Hong Kong since the handover, which Adam Ni, a China researcher at Macquarie University, describes as a largely symbolic presence of China s sovereignty ...
Milky Way galaxy is warped and twisted, not flat
... The Polish results support an journal by astronomers from Macquarie University in Australia and the Chinese Academy of Sciences...
Milky Way galaxy is warped and twisted, not flat
A new view of the Milky Way : Warped and twisted
Our galaxy, the Milky Way , is "warped and twisted" and not flat as previously thought, new research shows.
Analysis of the brightest stars in The Galaxy shows that they do not lie on a flat plane as shown in academic texts and popular science books.
Astronomers from Warsaw University speculate that it might have been bent out of shape by past interactions with nearby galaxies.
The new three dimensional map has been.
The popular picture of the Milky Way as a flat disc is based on the observation of 2. 5 million stars out of a possible 2. 5 billion. The artists' impressions are therefore rough approximations of the truer shape of our galaxy, according to Dr Dorota Skowron of Warsaw University.
"The internal structure and history of the Milky Way is still far from being understood, in part because it is extremely difficult to measure distances to stars at the outer regions of our galaxy," She Said .
More stories like this:To gain a more accurate picture, Dr Skowron and her colleagues measured the distances of some of the brightest stars in the Milky Way , called Cepheid variable stars. These are massive young stars that burn hundreds, if not thousands, of times brighter than Our Own Sun. They can be so bright that they can be observed at the very edge of The Galaxy .
Not only that, they also pulsate at regular intervals at a rate that is directly related to their brightness.
Artists' impressions which depict the Milky Way as a flat disk will have to be revisedThis enables astronomers to calculate Their Distance with great precision.
Most of The Stars were identified by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) at Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) in Chile's southern Atacama Desert . Przemek Mroz, a member of the OGLE team, said that the results were surprising.
Warsaw Telescope and Milky Way Cepheids discovered by the OGLE survey"Our results show that the Milky Way Galaxy is not flat. It is warped and twisted Far Away from the galactic centre. Warping may have happened through past interactions with satellite galaxies, intergalactic gas or Dark Matter (invisible material present in galaxies about which little in known). "
The Polish results support an journal by astronomers from Macquarie University in Australia and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
astronomy, milky way
Source of news: bbc.com
