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Ray Norris is a British/Australian astronomer with CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science who researches how galaxies formed after the Big Bang. He also researches the astronomy of Australian Aboriginal people, for which he has been an Adjunct Professor in Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University.

He was educated at Cambridge University, UK, and moved to Australia in 1983 to join CSIRO, where he became Head of Astrophysics in 1994. He returned in 2005 to active research and in 2013 he led an international project to image the faintest radio galaxies in the Universe, using the new ASKAP radiotelescope being built in Western Australia.

Norris frequently appears on radio and TV, has performed in a stage show called "The First Astronomers?", and in 2010 published a novel, Graven Images.