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.
SPIRIT inspires STEM futures
December 15, 2016The SPIRIT initiative completed its transition to ICRAR in 2016, including the creation of a new web interface.
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.
Cosmic Eye goes viral
December 12, 2016ICRAR researcher Dr Danail Obreschkow made the short film and iPhone app “Cosmic Eye” as an outreach initiative.
ICRAR student wins global engineering prize
December 7, 2016Daniel Ung, Masters student at ICRAR-Curtin University, has won an international engineering competition for use of the electromagnetic solving software package FEKO.
