AUSTRALIAN AND KOREAN TELESCOPES CONNECTED FOR DETAILED VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE
December 4, 2014CSIRO’s AUSTRALIA TELESCOPE COMPACT ARRAY (ATCA) is extending into exciting new territory to provide some of the very highest resolutions achievable on Earth by combining with other telescopes at high frequency bands used in Radio Astronomy.
ASTRONOMICAL INVESTMENT FOR SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY RADIO TELESCOPE
November 5, 2014The University of Western Australia and the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), has signed an agreement that will see up to 50 Chinese PhD students visit WA over the next five years.
DARK MATTER HALF WHAT WE THOUGHT, SAY SCIENTISTS
October 10, 2014A new measurement of dark matter in the Milky Way has revealed there is half as much of the mysterious substance as previously thought.
Scientists spot jets from supermassive black hole snacking on a star
October 9, 2014Astronomers have discovered a black hole that is consuming gas from a nearby star 10 times faster than previously thought possible.
MONSTER GALAXIES GAIN WEIGHT BY EATING SMALLER NEIGHBOURS
September 9, 2014Massive galaxies in the Universe have stopped making their own stars and are instead snacking on nearby galaxies, according to research by Australian scientists.
CARBON MONOXIDE PREDICTS ‘RED AND DEAD’ FUTURE OF GAS GUZZLER GALAXY
July 11, 2014Astronomers have studied the carbon monoxide in a galaxy over 12 billion light years from Earth and discovered that it’s running out of gas, quite literally, and headed for a ‘red and dead’ future.
