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.
ICRAR IN EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY’S TOP 5 MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS!
October 20, 2014ICRAR astronomer Dr Danail Oreschkow was on one of the last flights on the now-retired European Space Agency’s Zero-G Airbus A300 research plane earlier this year.
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.
HUNDREDS OF ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS GATHER NEAR PERTH TO ADVANCE THE SKA TELESCOPE
September 29, 2014Some 300 engineers and scientists from 15 countries have travelled to Fremantle, Western Australia, to take part in a global overview of the status, progress and way forward for the Square Kilometre Array.