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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SKA GETS £100MILLION BOOST FROM THE UK
March 13, 2014ICRAR is contributing to the Square Kilometre Array in three key areas.
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THESE AREN’T THE VOIDS YOU’RE LOOKING FOR
March 13, 2014Astronomers find faint strings of galaxies inside empty space.
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