A flying classroom and a trip to the South Pole
January 24, 2017On Australia Day (January 26), 18 high school students from Kent Street High School in Perth will board a Qantas Boeing 747 aircraft and fly over the South Magnetic Pole.
Galaxy Murder Mystery
January 17, 2017It’s the big astrophysical whodunnit. Across the Universe, galaxies are being killed and the question scientists want answered is, what’s killing them? New research published today by a global team of researchers, based at ICRAR, seeks to answer that question.
Fatal attraction burns bright between star and black hole
December 13, 2016An extraordinarily brilliant point of light seen in a distant galaxy, and dubbed ASASSN-15lh, was thought to be the brightest supernova ever seen. But new observations from several observatories, including ESO, have now cast doubt on this classification.
Flash of invisible light helps astronomers map the cosmic web
November 18, 2016A brief but brilliant burst of radiation that travelled at least a billion light years through Space to reach an Australian radio telescope last year has given scientists new insight into the fabric of the Universe.
Italy and Australia unite over world’s most ambitious telescope
October 31, 2016The world’s biggest telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will be the hot topic of discussion for a joint Italian-Australian meeting held in Perth this week.
Australian desert telescope views sky in radio technicolour
October 26, 2016A telescope located deep in the West Australian outback has shown what the Universe would look like if human eyes could see radio waves.
