PROVIDING A CLEARER VIEW OF OUR EARLY UNIVERSE
December 17, 2012A new data analysis tool will be used by CAASTRO researchers at the Curtin University node of ICRAR to handle large quantities of data coming in from the new low frequency radio telescope, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA).
ASTRONOMERS DISCOVER “MISSING LINK” OF BLACK HOLES
December 13, 2012The discovery of a bingeing black hole in our nearest neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, has shed new light on some of the brightest X-ray sources seen in other galaxies.
NEW RADIO TELESCOPE COULD SAVE WORLD BILLIONS
November 30, 2012Murchison Widefield Array telescope complete after eight years.
NEW AUSTRALIAN TELESCOPE SET TO FIND 700,000 GALAXIES
November 9, 2012Australia’s newest radio telescope is predicted to find an unprecedented 700,000 new galaxies.
ONCE IN A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE FOR THESKYNET CITIZEN SCIENTIST
November 5, 2012Last week the top contributor to citizen science initiative theSkyNet travelled to the heart of the West Australian outback to visit the future site of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope.
ASTRONOMERS STUDY TWO MILLION LIGHT YEAR ‘EXTRAGALACTIC AFTERBURNER’
October 25, 2012Blasting over two million light years from the centre of a distant galaxy is a supersonic jet of material that looks strikingly similar to the afterburner flow of a fighter jet.
