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- International Students: 31st August (for entry the following year)
- Domestic Students: 31st October (for entry the following year)
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- An overview of the Graduate Program in
Astronomy and Astrophysics can be found here.
- Information on scholarships available for study
at RSAA can be found here.
- Details of the application process can be found here.
- For information on the Summer Research Scholarship
program please check here.
- For information on the Astrophysics Honours Year
program please check here.
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Did you know?
- RSAA astronomer, Professor Brian Schmidt, was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2011 for his work at RSAA showing that the cosmos is expanding at an accelerating rate. The only other Australian Nobel Prize in Physics was in 1915, when the Braggs won it for their work on x-ray crystallography.
- RSAA students have been awarded 6 of Australia’s 10
Hubble Fellowships, making the RSAA the 2nd most
successful non-US institution (behind Cambridge which has 7) in
these prestigous postdoctoral fellowship competitions.
- RSAA has more staff on the Thomson Reuters list of Highly Cited Researchers in the field of Space Science than any other Australian university. The School has been ranked number 10 in the world in Space Science, the only Australian institution in the top twenty.
- RSAA is leading Australian participation in the billion-dollar, international Giant Magellan Telescope, a next-generation optical telescope having 100 times the sensitivity of the Hubble Space Telescope and delivering 10 times sharper images.
- RSAA scientists have led the 2dF Galaxy
Redshift Survey, the 6dF Galaxy Survey,
the High-Z SN Search,
the HST Key
Project for measuring the Hubble Constant, and Mount Stromlo
has been the home of the MACHO experiment.
- In 2006, the International
Shaw Prize in astronomy was awarded to RSAA’s Professor Brian Schmidt for
the discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating
rate.
- RSAA has built Australia's first instruments for the Gemini
8m telescopes (NIFS program, NIFS begins observations in
Hawaii, GSAOI program) and is involved in
instrumentation for ESO's Very Large Telescopes. RSAA
has a PhD program in astronomical instrumentation. We run
telescopes at Siding Spring Observatory, which is the site for the
School’s new 1.3m SkyMapper telescope.
- RSAA astronomers are members of the national academies of science in Australia, the USA, the UK, the Netherlands and Spain.
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