What happens when Cosmic Giants meet Galactic Dwarfs?
July 13, 2015When two different sized galaxies smash together, the larger galaxy stops the smaller one making new stars, according to a study of more than 20,000 merging galaxies.
Galaxy’s snacking habits revealed
May 21, 2015A team of Australian and Spanish astronomers have caught a greedy galaxy gobbling on its neighbours and leaving crumbs of evidence about its dietary past.
THE WORLD’S LARGEST RADIO TELESCOPE TAKES A MAJOR STEP TOWARDS CONSTRUCTION
March 10, 2015At their meeting last week at the SKA Organisation Headquarters near Manchester, UK, the SKA Board of Directors unanimously agreed to move the world’s largest radio telescope forward to its final pre-construction phase.
LIVE FAST DIE YOUNG GALAXIES LOSE THE GAS THAT KEEPS THEM ALIVE
February 3, 2015Galaxies can die early because the gas they need to make new stars is suddenly ejected, research published today suggests.
ASTRONOMERS DISSECT THE AFTERMATH OF A SUPERNOVA
January 27, 2015In research published today in the Astrophysical Journal, an Australian led team of astronomers has used radio telescopes in Australia and Chile to see inside the remains of a supernova.
AUSTRALIAN AND KOREAN TELESCOPES CONNECTED FOR DETAILED VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE
December 4, 2014CSIRO’s AUSTRALIA TELESCOPE COMPACT ARRAY (ATCA) is extending into exciting new territory to provide some of the very highest resolutions achievable on Earth by combining with other telescopes at high frequency bands used in Radio Astronomy.
