Astronomical Society of Australia honours stargazers at annual conference
July 13, 2021Former ICRAR/UWA Masters student Madeleine McKenzie has been awarded the Bok Prize by the by the Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) — the country’s professional body for the field.
ICRAR celebrates NAIDOC Week
July 9, 2021ICRAR is a strong supporter of NAIDOC week, and acknowledging the Wajuk Noongar people, the traditional custodians of the land UWA and Curtin University are…
Thousands of galaxies classified in a blink of an eye
July 8, 2021Astronomers have designed and trained a computer program which can classify tens of thousands of galaxies in just a few seconds, a task that usually takes months to accomplish.
Outback radio telescope discovers dense, spinning, dead star
April 21, 2021Astronomers have discovered a pulsar—a dense and rapidly spinning neutron star sending radio waves into the cosmos—using a low-frequency radio telescope in outback Australia.
$64 million for WA to process signals from the dawn of time
April 16, 2021The federal government will invest $64.4 million to establish a centre in Perth to process and analyse data from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope.
First light images from SPIRIT 6
April 7, 2021SPIRIT 6 has taken its first images of the night sky from the new Mardella Observatory.
