PAWSEY POWERHOUSE SUPERCOMPUTER CRUNCHES PRE-SKA DATA TORRENT
July 23, 2013High-performance computing specialists from ICRAR today became the first users of one of Australia’s leading supercomputing facilities – the Pawsey Centre – ahead of its official opening later this year.
EARLY UNIVERSE TO BE REVEALED
July 9, 2013Solar storms, space junk and the formation of the Universe are about to be seen in an entirely new way with the start of operations today by the $51 million Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope.
NEW EXTRA-GALACTIC RADIO BURSTS TO PROBE UNIVERSE
July 5, 2013The detection of four short bursts of radio waves has now laid doubts about the authenticity of a heatedly debated previous signal, known as the Lorimer burst, to rest.
A stellar team from Shenton College
June 26, 2013Forget reading, writing and arithmetic – five bright high school students are light years away from such mundane subjects.
STACKING UP A CLEARER PICTURE OF THE UNIVERSE
June 12, 2013Researchers from ICRAR have proven a new technique that will provide a clearer picture of the Universe’s history and be used with the next generation of radio telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).
ICRAR AWARDED PART OF $19M IN FEDERAL FUNDING FOR THE SKA
May 28, 2013ICRAR is proud to announce that we were successful in receiving $5 million from the Australian Government to fund our work towards Square Kilometre Array design and preparation.