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Latest media releases
Galaxy murder mystery solved
November 2, 2021Galaxies are being killed in one of the most extreme regions of the nearby Universe and astronomers think they know why.
Australia delivers critical subsystem for VISTA telescope
October 28, 2021An Australian-built major subsystem for the European Southern Observatory’s 4MOST instrument has arrived in Germany at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) ready for testing prior to installation on the four-metre VISTA telescope located in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
Galactic fireworks: stunning features of nearby galaxies revealed
July 16, 2021Breathtaking images of galaxies close to the Milky Way have been released by an international team of astronomers exploring the mystery of how stars are born.
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.
