GAME-CHANGING SCIENCE WITH THE SKA
June 16, 2014Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array conference held from June 8-13 in Giardini Naxos, Italy, is coming to an end today.
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LOCAL UNIVERSITY STUDENT RESEARCH RECOGNISED BY NASA
May 15, 2014A 25-year-old PhD student from Willeton has had his research recognised by NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute for its contribution to their upcoming James Webb Space Telescope.
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SKA ENGINEERING MEETING 2014
May 8, 2014The SKA Project is now in the pre-construction phase with 11 Consortia carrying out design work to enable the project to enter the construction phase.
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ASTRONOMERS HARNESS THE GALAXY’S BIGGEST TELESCOPE TO MAKE MOST PRECISE MEASUREMENT OF SPINNING STAR
May 6, 2014An international team of astronomers has made a measurement of a distant neutron star that is one million times more precise than the previous world’s best.
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APRIL 29TH PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
May 2, 2014April 29th, 2014 saw a rare partial annular solar eclipse visible from Perth, Western Australia.
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ASTRONOMERS OBSERVE CORKSCREW NATURE OF LIGHT FROM A DISTANT BLACK HOLE
May 1, 2014For the first time an international team of astronomers has measured circular polarisation in the bright flash of light from a dying star collapsing to a black hole.
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