World’s biggest telescope meets world’s second fastest supercomputer
August 22, 2016A prototype part of the software system to manage data from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope has run on the world’s second fastest supercomputer in China.
Ten trillionths of your suntan comes from beyond our galaxy
August 12, 2016In a study published today, astronomers have accurately measured the light hitting the Earth from outside our galaxy over a very broad wavelength range.
Australian researchers have developed ultra-accurate synchronisation tech for largest telescope
July 1, 2016Last week, a team of Australian researchers successfully completed ‘Astronomical Verification’ of a critical sub-system of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)—the forthcoming radio telescope that will be the largest and most sensitive on Earth.
Clandestine Black Hole May Represent New Population
June 28, 2016Astronomers have combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to conclude that a peculiar source of radio waves thought to be a distant galaxy is actually a nearby binary star system containing a low-mass star and a black hole.
Writing their name in the stars: citizen scientists discover huge galaxy cluster
June 14, 2016Two volunteer participants in an international citizen science project have had a rare galaxy cluster that they found named after them.
Astronomers smash cosmic records to see hydrogen in distant galaxy
June 2, 2016An international team of scientists has pushed the limits of radio astronomy to detect a faint signal emitted by hydrogen gas in a galaxy more than five billion light years away—almost double the previous record.
