ICRAR PhD Candidates finalists in Premier’s Science Awards
Jul 19/ 2017Premier Mark McGowan has announced the finalists in the 2017 Premier’s Science Awards. The finalists have contributed to better treatments for cancer and other diseases, biodiversity…
SKA signs Big Data cooperation agreement with CERN
Jul 17/ 2017CERN Headquarters, Geneva, Thursday 13 July 2017 SKA Organisation and CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, today signed an agreement formalising their growing collaboration…
Honey I shrunk… the globular cluster?
Jun 02/ 2017Famous globular cluster Omega Centauri, within the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: ESO. New simulation work from ICRAR’s Dr Kenji Bekki has predicted that globular…
ASKAP telescope to rule radio-burst hunt
May 22/ 2017Dishes of CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder. Credit: Kim Steele, ICRAR. A CSIRO telescope has found its first ‘fast radio burst’ from…
A new Cosmic Dawn rises
Apr 21/ 2017Primary mirror(s) of the James Web Space Telescope.Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn A new astronomy research centre of excellence will be established by the…
Astronomers probe swirling particles in halo of starburst galaxy
Mar 28/ 2017Astronomers have used a radio telescope in outback Western Australia to see the halo of a nearby starburst galaxy in unprecedented detail. NGC253…
