Hunting Molecules with the MWA
July 21, 2017Astronomers have used an Australian radio telescope to observe molecular signatures from stars, gas and dust in our galaxy, which could lead to the detection of complex molecules that are precursors to life.
ICRAR PhD Candidates finalists in Premier’s Science Awards
July 19, 2017Premier Mark McGowan has announced the finalists in the 2017 Premier’s Science Awards.
SKA signs Big Data cooperation agreement with CERN
July 17, 2017SKA Organisation and CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, today signed an agreement formalising their growing collaboration in the area of extreme-scale computing.
Honey I shrunk… the globular cluster?
June 2, 2017New simulation work from ICRAR’s Dr Kenji Bekki has predicted that globular clusters, collections of hundreds of thousands of stars inside galaxies, used to be much larger.
ASKAP telescope to rule radio-burst hunt
May 22, 2017A CSIRO telescope has found its first ‘fast radio burst’ from space after less than four days of searching.
A new Cosmic Dawn rises
April 21, 2017A new astronomy research centre of excellence will be established by the Danish Government to study how and when the first ever galaxies formed in our Universe.
