As of today, hundreds of extrasolar planets have been discoverd, and thousands of candidates are waiting for confirmation. Although we already have discovered...

A 52' × 52' field in the Lupus Galactic plane was observed with the ANU 1m telescope for 53 nights during 2005 and 2006 in a search for transiting Hot Jupiter...

We surveyed a small sample of metal-rich solar-like stars in our planet search program during the last 3 years. Here we present the detection of a brown dwarf...

Cygnus OB2 is a rich and relatively close (d~1.4 kpc) OB association in our Galaxy. It represents an ideal testbed for our theories about self-enrichment...

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The Milky Way's thick disk was originally identified by fitting the vertical density distribution of stars to a double exponential profile. Recent...

The recent era of large, ground-based abundance surveys has unraveled the chemical structures of our Milky Way galaxy. The most striking abundance feature is...

Several recent experiments have shown evidence for the existence of a new microwave emission process in our Galaxy (in the range 10-60 GHz) that may affect the...

Observing the first galaxies formed during the reionisation epoch, i.e. approximately within the first billion years after the Big Bang, remains one of the...