ASTRONOMERS DISCOVER “MISSING LINK” OF BLACK HOLES
December 13, 2012The discovery of a bingeing black hole in our nearest neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, has shed new light on some of the brightest X-ray sources seen in other galaxies.
NEW RADIO TELESCOPE COULD SAVE WORLD BILLIONS
November 30, 2012Murchison Widefield Array telescope complete after eight years.
NEW AUSTRALIAN TELESCOPE SET TO FIND 700,000 GALAXIES
November 9, 2012Australia’s newest radio telescope is predicted to find an unprecedented 700,000 new galaxies.
ONCE IN A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE FOR THESKYNET CITIZEN SCIENTIST
November 5, 2012Last week the top contributor to citizen science initiative theSkyNet travelled to the heart of the West Australian outback to visit the future site of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope.
ASTRONOMERS STUDY TWO MILLION LIGHT YEAR ‘EXTRAGALACTIC AFTERBURNER’
October 25, 2012Blasting over two million light years from the centre of a distant galaxy is a supersonic jet of material that looks strikingly similar to the afterburner flow of a fighter jet.
THE STARS COME OUT FOR WA SCIENCE AWARDS
October 12, 2012Scientists from ICRAR have been recognised for their part in bringing one of the world’s largest and most ambitious science projects to the State.
