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.
APRIL 29TH PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
May 2, 2014April 29th, 2014 saw a rare partial annular solar eclipse visible from Perth, Western Australia.
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.
SKA GETS £100MILLION BOOST FROM THE UK
March 13, 2014ICRAR is contributing to the Square Kilometre Array in three key areas.
THESE AREN’T THE VOIDS YOU’RE LOOKING FOR
March 13, 2014Astronomers find faint strings of galaxies inside empty space.
NEW FAST AND FURIOUS BLACK HOLE FOUND
February 28, 2014A team of Australian and American astronomers have been studying nearby galaxy M83 and have found a new superpowered small black hole.
