First SKA-low prototype station completed on site
May 25, 2018A complete prototype station of antennas for the future SKA-low telescope has been completed and is being tested at the SKA site in Western Australia.
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Outback radio telescope listens in on interstellar visitor
April 10, 2018A telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to listen to a mysterious cigar-shaped object that entered our Solar System late last year. The unusual object—known as ‘Oumuamua—came from another solar system, prompting speculation it could be an alien spacecraft.
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First signs of earliest stars seen from the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory
March 1, 2018Using a small radio telescope at a CSIRO observatory in Western Australia, US astronomers have detected a signal from the first stars to have emerged in the early Universe about 180 million years after the Big Bang.
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