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.
DR ANDREEA FONT AWARDED THE 2014 ICRAR VISITING FELLOWSHIP FOR SENIOR WOMEN IN ASTRONOMY
September 16, 2014ICRAR is very pleased to announce that Dr Andreea Font will join us for three months as the first ICRAR Visiting Fellow under the “ICRAR Visiting Fellowship Program for Senior Women in Astronomy”.
MONSTER GALAXIES GAIN WEIGHT BY EATING SMALLER NEIGHBOURS
September 9, 2014Massive galaxies in the Universe have stopped making their own stars and are instead snacking on nearby galaxies, according to research by Australian scientists.