Astronomers witness the dragging of space-time in stellar cosmic dance
January 31, 2020After almost 20 years of patient monitoring, an international team of astronomers have witnessed the very fabric of space-time being dragged around a rapidly-rotating exotic star known as a white dwarf.
View the SKA in augmented reality
January 23, 2020The Square Kilometre Array is now available in augmented reality! We’ve been busy developing this interactive augmented reality with Quivervision, thanks to support from SKA…
Leading Australian telescopes to get technology upgrades
January 17, 2020CSIRO’s iconic Parkes radio telescope – fondly known as ‘The Dish’ – will get a new receiver that will significantly increase the amount of sky it can see at any one time, enabling new science and supporting local innovation in the space sector.
Ken and Julie Michael Prize 2019 awarded
December 10, 2019Mengyao Xue from ICRAR-Curtin and Fei Qin from ICRAR-UWA have been awarded the Ken and Julie Michael Prizes for 2019.
MAGIC telescopes see most epic explosion
November 21, 2019A violent explosion in a distant galaxy has broken the record for the brightest source of high-energy light in the Universe.
Outback telescope captures Milky Way centre, discovers remnants of dead stars
November 20, 2019A radio telescope in the Western Australian outback has captured a spectacular new view of the centre of the galaxy in which we live, the Milky Way.
