Sentences with word «galah»

Dr. Sarah Martell from the UNSW Sydney, who leads GALAH survey observations, explained that the Sun, like all stars, was born in a group or cluster of thousands of stars.
In combination with velocities from GALAH, Gaia data will give not just the positions and distances of the stars, but also their motions within the Galaxy.
However, even at this impressive rate, it still took the team of GALAH astronomers a grand total of 280 nights to observe the 340,000 stars included in the new release.
Very friendly pink and grey galah.
Hey Google you flaming galah... I'm pretty sure @ShaneLowryGolf isn't from Australia!
This is a major announcement from an ambitious Galactic Archaeology survey, called GALAH, launched in late 2013 as part of a quest to uncover the formulation and evolution of galaxies.
«No other survey has been able to measure as many elements for as many stars as GALAH,» said Dr Gayandhi De Silva, of the University of Sydney and AAO, the HERMES instrument scientist who oversaw the groups working on today's major data release.
Wildlie is abundant, we ride among feeding kangaroos, and the local birds are pelicans, black swams and pink and grey galahs.
PhD student Sven Buder of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany, who is lead author of the scientific article describing the GALAH data release, is part of the analysis effort of the project, working with PhD student Ly Duong and Professor Martin Asplund of ANU and ASTRO 3D.
The GALAH survey is the brainchild of Professor Joss Bland - Hawthorn from the University of Sydney and the ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) and Professor Ken Freeman of the Australian National University (ANU).
The GALAH survey used the HERMES spectrograph at the Australian Astronomical Observatory's (AAO) 3.9 - metre Anglo - Australian Telescope near Coonabarabran, NSW, to collect spectra for the 340,000 stars.
It was conceived more than a decade ago as a way to unravel the history of our Milky Way galaxy; the HERMES instrument was designed and built by the AAO specifically for the GALAH survey.
«The GALAH team's aim is to make DNA matches between stars to find their long - lost sisters and brothers.»
Professor Tomaz Zwitter (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) said today's results from the GALAH survey would be crucial to interpreting the results from Gaia: «The accuracy of the velocities that we are achieving with GALAH is unprecedented for such a large survey.»
The GALAH survey's data release is timed to coincide with the huge release of data on 25 April from the European Gaia satellite, which has mapped more than 1.6 billion stars in the Milky Way — making it by far the biggest and most accurate atlas of the night sky to date.
To do this, GALAH has developed sophisticated analysis techniques.
When complete, GALAH will investigate more than a million stars.
The galah, an Australian cockatoo whose olfactory talents have not been studied, was the laggard of the flock, with an estimated 107 working receptor genes, the researchers reported online 15 July in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. «The sense of smell in birds may be as good as that of humans, and in some cases, even better,» Steiger says.
A Sydney - led international group of astronomers has revealed the «DNA» of more than 340,000 stars in the first major data release from the Galactic Archaeology survey GALAH for clues about how galaxies formed and evolved.
By the time the survey draws to a close, GALAH is expected to have analyzed the light of a million stars.
The publishing of the GALAH survey has been timed to coincide with the April 25 release of data collected by the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft.
The observations made by HERMES and the GALAH scientists could also lead to the discovery of some of our Sun's many solar siblings.
The treasure trove of stellar data was harvested as part of the Galactic Archaeology survey (GALAH), which was launched in 2013 with the goal of revealing how galaxies such as our own Milky Way come to form and evolve.
This dataset will be complimented by observations from the GALAH survey, which analyzed the motions and velocities of stellar bodies.
The GALAH survey's data release is timed to coincide with the huge release of data on 25 April from the European Gaia satellite, which has mapped more than 1.6 billion stars in the Milky Way, making it by far the biggest and most accurate atlas of the night sky to date.
Also known as «galahs,» Rose - Breasted Cockatoos are loud and bold, so don't expect a docile, quiet companion if you bring one of these birds into your home.
For the young at heart the pet kangaroos, corellas and galahs can be fed and handled, and for the energetic, sandboards can be hired.
Pelicans, galahs, cockatoos and cormorants..
Walk through the bird aviaries and handfeed a colourful variety of native parrots, cockatoos and galahs..
This tranquil and peaceful setting is home to unique Australian wildlife in it's natural surrounds — kangaroos, emus, echidnas and a prolific variety of colourful birdlife that makes this natural paradise their habitat — wild ducks, pelicans, waders, parrots, pink cockatoos, galahs, magpies and many other varieties.
See native animal and birds such as koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, parrots, cockatoos, galahs and kookaburras in their natural habitat.
I know I said I wouldn't blog today but, after 2 hours fitful sleep, I had to get up because some galah had set the timer on my oven to go off at 6.20 am.
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