Astrofest: Australia’s Largest Free Community Astronomy Event is Back!
November 18, 2023Astrofest, Australia’s premier community astronomy event, is returning to Curtin Stadium on Saturday 18th November for another night of celestial wonders and stargazing. This annual…
Gas-rich baby galaxies set the early Universe alight
November 7, 2023New images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have helped Australian astronomers unlock secrets of how infant galaxies started an explosion of star formation…
Record-breaking fast radio burst offers path to weigh the Universe
October 20, 2023An eight-billion-year-old burst of energy has been discovered, demonstrating that we can detect and measure matter between galaxies. The discovery opens a path to using…
Astronomers reveal cosmic ribbon around rare galaxy
September 13, 2023Image Credit: J. English (U.Manitoba), with support of N. Deg (Queen’s U.) and the WALLABY team; CSIRO/ASKAP radio telescope, NAOJ/Subaru Telescope International astronomers using…
ICRAR engineers have designed ‘radio-quiet’ electronics to power the world’s largest radio telescope.
September 11, 2023A team of researchers, engineers and technicians has developed a ‘SMART box’ to power the world’s largest radio telescope. The Power and Signal Distribution (PaSD)…
Invisible women: Female scientists missing from Australian STEM curriculum.
August 28, 2023A team of researchers have found high school science courses in Australia fail to mention the contributions of women in STEM, and instead focus on…
