Commissioning the SAMI instrument: First Hexabundle Galaxy Spectra
Galaxy Parameter Variations Across and through the 6dFGS Fundamental Plane
The Dragonfly stellar interferometer flutters its wings
The RAdial VElocity (RAVE) survey at half a million spectra
The Magellanic Quasars Survey
The Integrated Photonic Spectrograph's first look at the heart of the Scorpion
In other news
Are You Biased? Thoughts on diversity in the astronomy community
The 2011 Southern Cross Astrophysics Conference.
Vale Tom Cragg.
August 2011, Edition #120
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