Public Lecture: Rosetta’s journey – Unlocking the origins of life
February 17, 2015After a decade-long journey, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has become the first mission to rendezvous with a comet, opening a new chapter in Solar System exploration.
LIVE FAST DIE YOUNG GALAXIES LOSE THE GAS THAT KEEPS THEM ALIVE
February 3, 2015Galaxies can die early because the gas they need to make new stars is suddenly ejected, research published today suggests.
ASTRONOMERS DISSECT THE AFTERMATH OF A SUPERNOVA
January 27, 2015In research published today in the Astrophysical Journal, an Australian led team of astronomers has used radio telescopes in Australia and Chile to see inside the remains of a supernova.
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.
