Scientists discover more about the ingredients for star formation
October 10, 2017Astronomers have shed fresh light on the importance of hydrogen atoms in the birth of new stars. Only hydrogen molecules are thought to directly fuel star formation but research published today shows there are more hydrogen atoms than molecules even in young galaxies that are making a lot of stars.
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.
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.
