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This morning Senator Chris Evans, Australia's Minister for science, visited The University of Western Australia node of ICRAR along with UWA's new Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Johnson.

All the staff at ICRAR were deeply saddened today to hear of the untimely and tragic death of Steve Rawlings. Steve was a leader of the international effort to build the SKA and had served as the international project scientist, head of the European SKA consortium and in other major roles that promoted and pushed forward the SKA science case and vision. He was a great researcher, communicator and scientific leader. We will all miss him greatly.

An ICRAR - Curtin University radio astronomer is a step closer to understanding how black holes can launch superfast 'bullets' of gas into space, by identifying the exact moment when these 'bullets' form.  

A leading science administrator has been honoured as one of the State’s greatest contributors to scientific endeavour with his induction into the Western Australian Science Hall of Fame.
Dr Bernard Bowen, Chair of the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research − a collaboration between Curtin University and The University of Western Australia − was inducted at a WA Science Awards gala dinner at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre last night.

A quest to study the earliest stars and galaxies in the Universe is underway, with local industry building the first major pieces of a revolutionary new radio telescope in Western Australia, as part of the Murchison Wide-field Array.

A community computing science initiative to help discover the hidden Universe was officially launched this morning at Curtin University by Western Australia’s Minister for Science and Innovation, the Hon. John Day.

Top astronomers and engineers from nine countries met in Perth in early September to plan for pre-construction of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) at The Path to SKA-low workshop. Hosted by the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), the workshop attracted more than 75 researchers from Australia, India, Italy, Malta, New Zealand, The Netherlands, South Africa, the UK and the US.

A PhD student from The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Perth has produced one of the most accurate measurements ever made of how fast the Universe is expanding. Florian Beutler, a PhD candidate with ICRAR at the University of Western Australia, has calculated how fast the Universe is growing by measuring the Hubble constant.