The ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) aims to be the international leader in wide-field astronomy, positioning Australia to address fundamental unsolved questions about the Universe.
The unsolved questions in astronomy demand entirely new approaches, requiring enormous data sets covering the entire sky. In the last few years, Australia has invested more than $400 million both in innovative wide-field telescopes and in the powerful computers needed to process the resulting torrents of data. Using these new tools, Australia now has the chance to establish itself at the vanguard of the upcoming information revolution centred on all-sky astrophysics.
CAASTRO is led by The University of Sydney, in conjunction with the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, the University of Western Australia, Curtin University and Swinburne University, complemented by a group of world-class Australian and international partners.
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