Ken and Julie Michael Prize 2021 awarded
November 25, 2021The 2021 award recipients are joint winners James Buchan & Stefan Duchesne from ICRAR-Curtin and Ruby Wright from ICRAR-UWA.
Galaxy murder mystery solved
November 2, 2021Galaxies are being killed in one of the most extreme regions of the nearby Universe and astronomers think they know why.
Australia delivers critical subsystem for VISTA telescope
October 28, 2021An Australian-built major subsystem for the European Southern Observatory’s 4MOST instrument has arrived in Germany at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) ready for testing prior to installation on the four-metre VISTA telescope located in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
ET signal turns out to be humans phoning home
October 26, 2021The results are in from a study of a strange signal picked up last year by the Breakthrough Listen project. It turns out to be Earth-based interference from human technologies, not a signal from the Proxima Centauri system.
Unveiling galaxies at cosmic dawn that were hiding behind the dust
September 23, 2021Scientists discover two galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago, that have been hidden by dust until now.
Kat Ross announced as Sydney Observatory Astronomy Ambassador
September 8, 2021The Powerhouse has announced the appointment of Kat Ross, astrophysicist and founder of the #IncludeHer campaign, as the new Sydney Observatory Astronomy Ambassador.
