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.
Over 1,000 ICRAR publications since launch!
November 30, 2016ICRAR’s talented staff and students have published more than 1,000 papers in refereed journals since our launch in 2009, with the 999th to 1,002nd papers published at the same time last week.
Flash of invisible light helps astronomers map the cosmic web
November 18, 2016A brief but brilliant burst of radiation that travelled at least a billion light years through Space to reach an Australian radio telescope last year has given scientists new insight into the fabric of the Universe.
