The birth of massive stars

澳大利亚在天文学方面享有国际声誉。这反过来又激发了公众对科学的兴趣，并有助于推动追求科学所需技术的发展。在过去十年中，我国投资于毫米波天文学技术，建造了有竞争力的仪器和我们半球的第一台干涉仪。我们的目标是利用这项投资，利用它来访问我们的国际合作伙伴正在建设的智利前线设施。在这样做的过程中，我们将使我们的学生接触到前沿，并帮助培养一个充满活力的无线电科学界，一个能够积极参与十亿美元的国际阿尔马射电望远镜，定于2012年完成。

Australia has an international reputation for the quality of its astronomy. This in turn stimulates public interest in science, and helps drive the development of technologies needed to pursue it. Over the past decade our nation has invested in the technology for millimetre-wave astronomy, building competitive instrumentation and the first interferometer in our hemisphere. We aim to capitalise on this investment, leveraging it to access frontline facilities in Chile being built by our international partners. In doing so, we will expose our students to the leading-edge and help nurture a vigorous radio science community, one able to actively participate in the billion-dollar international ALMA radio-telescope, due for completion in 2012.