What ingredients went into the galactic blender to create the Milky Way?
Our galaxy is a giant ‘smoothie’ of blended stars [...]
Bill Condie
Education, Outreach & Communications
Science in Public
Biography
Bill Condie has been a journalist for more than 35 years, mostly writing and editing for British national newspapers, including The Times, The Guardian, the Observer, The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mirror, and the London Evening Standard. His career has been wide-ranging from international affairs, to politics and science. Since returning to Australia he has concentrated on science journalism and writing, first working at Australia’s leading science magazine Cosmos, first as an editor and later as Publisher, then as Head of Publishing at the Royal Institution of Australia. He has also produced written and video content both for traditional media outlets and for researchers, universities and other institutions including Flinders University, Monash University and the University of Adelaide, to help them communicate complex subjects to a wide audience.
Closing in on the first light in the Universe
Research using new antennas in the Australian hinterland has [...]
Galaxies pump out contaminated exhausts
Galaxies pump out contaminated exhausts Credit: James Josephides, Swinburne [...]
New type of massive explosion explains mystery star
The star SMSS J200322.54-114203.3. (centre, with crosshairs) in the [...]
Bend it like Einstein: Astronomers turn galaxies into magnifiers
New technique helps NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope [...]
More than 60 years to achieve gender equity?
Modelling shows urgent need to [...]
At cosmic noon, puffy galaxies make stars for longer
An ensemble of twenty-five disk galaxies. The view on [...]
The secrets of 3000 galaxies laid bare
A/Prof Julia Bryant from the University of Sydney inside [...]
Orbits of ancient stars prompt rethink on Milky Way evolution
Australian telescopes and European satellite combine to reveal unexpected [...]
Playing detective on a galactic scale: huge new dataset will solve multiple Milky Way mysteries
Australian-led GALAH project releases chemical information for 600,000 stars [...]