Steven Tingay
John Curtin Distinguished Professor Steven Tingay is the Deputy Executive Director of ICRAR and leads the Curtin University node of ICRAR. He is an expert in astronomy and astrophysics, in… Read More
Professor Steven Tingay joint winner in Premier’s Science Awards 2020
We congratulate John Curtin Distinguished Professor Steven Tingay on being named joint Scientist of the Year at the 2020 Western Australian Premier’s Science Awards. Professor Tingay, a world-renowned astronomer from… Read More
I’M A SCIENTIST, GET ME OUT OF HERE…
I'm a scientist, get me out of here... …Is the cry coming from ICRAR Deputy Director Professor Steven Tingay, who's spending time over the next two weeks inspiring the next… Read More
Programme
Programme ICRARCon 2025 will take place from 9am-5pm on both Tuesday 25th March and Wednesday 26th, 2025. The conference will be catered during the day. There are no after-hours events… Read More
Astronomers may have discovered the answer to a mysterious stellar event
Researchers from the Curtin node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have made a record-breaking astrophysical discovery while simultaneously uncovering a possible explanation for the rare and… Read More
Astronomers take alien search to thousands of galaxies, far, far away
Curtin University has played a major role in an out-of-this-world international study which has taken the search for extraterrestrial life into exciting new territory. In collaboration with the SETI (Search… Read More
Hiding in plain sight, astronomers find new type of stellar object
An international team led by astronomers from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has discovered a new type of stellar object that challenges… Read More
Programme
Programme ICRARcon 2023 will be held at the Perth Convention Centre on the 20th and 21st of June, see the logistics page for more details. *Guided collaboration activity NOTE:… Read More
Mysterious object unlike anything astronomers have seen before
A team mapping radio waves in the Universe has discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour, and it’s unlike anything astronomers have seen… Read More
Astronomers capture black hole eruption spanning 16 times the full Moon in the sky
Astronomers have produced the most comprehensive image of radio emission from the nearest actively feeding supermassive black hole to Earth. The emission is powered by a central black hole in… Read More
Outback radio telescope discovers dense, spinning, dead star
Astronomers 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. The pulsar was detected with the… Read More
Australian telescope finds no signs of alien technology in 10 million star systems
A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has completed the deepest and broadest search at low frequencies for alien technologies, scanning a patch of sky known to include at least… Read More
Preparations complete in Western Australia for construction of world’s largest telescope
Following seven years of design and prototyping work, the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has completed its preparations for the construction of the… Read More