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Arecibo data still has astronomers in a spin

December 1, 2021

New research shows the relationship between the mass of stars and a galaxy’s rotation is not what we first thought, with different galaxy types displaying a different relationship between the two properties.

Arecibo data still has astronomers in a spin

Galaxy murder mystery solved

November 2, 2021

Galaxies are being killed in one of the most extreme regions of the nearby Universe and astronomers think they know why.

Galaxy murder mystery solved

Australia delivers critical subsystem for VISTA telescope

October 28, 2021

An 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.

Australia delivers critical subsystem for VISTA telescope

ET signal turns out to be humans phoning home

October 26, 2021

The results are in from a study of a strange signal picked up last year by the Breakthrough Listen project. It turns out to be Earth-based interference from human technologies, not a signal from the Proxima Centauri system.

ET signal turns out to be humans phoning home