GAME-CHANGING SCIENCE WITH THE SKA
June 16, 2014Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array conference held from June 8-13 in Giardini Naxos, Italy, is coming to an end today.
LOCAL UNIVERSITY STUDENT RESEARCH RECOGNISED BY NASA
May 15, 2014A 25-year-old PhD student from Willeton has had his research recognised by NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute for its contribution to their upcoming James Webb Space Telescope.
SKA ENGINEERING MEETING 2014
May 8, 2014The SKA Project is now in the pre-construction phase with 11 Consortia carrying out design work to enable the project to enter the construction phase.
ASTRONOMERS HARNESS THE GALAXY’S BIGGEST TELESCOPE TO MAKE MOST PRECISE MEASUREMENT OF SPINNING STAR
May 6, 2014An international team of astronomers has made a measurement of a distant neutron star that is one million times more precise than the previous world’s best.
APRIL 29TH PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
May 2, 2014April 29th, 2014 saw a rare partial annular solar eclipse visible from Perth, Western Australia.
ASTRONOMERS OBSERVE CORKSCREW NATURE OF LIGHT FROM A DISTANT BLACK HOLE
May 1, 2014For the first time an international team of astronomers has measured circular polarisation in the bright flash of light from a dying star collapsing to a black hole.
