CALLING WOMEN ASTRONOMERS
September 11, 2013ICRAR has announced the creation of a new and unique fellowship scheme aimed at senior women astronomers.
WA GOVERNMENT INVESTS $26M IN ASTRONOMY AND THE SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY
September 11, 2013ICRAR has been extended for another five years thanks to a $26M investment announced by WA Premier Colin Barnett today.
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.
