First SKA-low prototype station completed on site
May 25, 2018A full station of 256 antennas at CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in outback Western Australia. The demonstrator is used to help test and finalise…
Introducing SPIRIT 3
April 19, 2018A generous donation of a telescope, mount, imaging and ancillary equipment from Mr Neil Shaw and his wife Tara has expanded the ICRAR’s…
Outback radio telescope listens in on interstellar visitor
April 10, 2018A telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to listen to a mysterious cigar-shaped object that entered our Solar System late last year. The…
Astrofest 2018 a success
March 27, 2018Two and a half thousand people gathered in a stadium & spilled out onto an oval, united in their love of all things space &…
Astronomers discover galaxies spin like clockwork
March 14, 2018Astronomers have discovered that all galaxies rotate once every billion years, no matter how big they are. The Earth spinning around on its axis once…
First signs of earliest stars seen from the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory
March 1, 2018Using a small radio telescope at a CSIRO observatory in Western Australia, US astronomers have detected a signal from the first stars to have emerged…
