Slow-spinning radio star breaks all the rules
June 6, 2024Australian scientists from the University of Sydney, Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, and ICRAR, have detected what is likely a neutron star spinning slower than any other ever measured.
ONe Nova to Rule Them All
May 11, 2024Astronomers have proposed a new theory to explain the origin of phosphorus, one of the elements important for life on Earth.
An Abundance of Distant Gas-rich Galaxies Found by FAST
May 11, 2024Astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in Guizhou Province in China have found an abundance of unusually gas-rich galaxies in the…
A giant galactic explosion catches galaxy pollution in the act
April 22, 2024A team of international researchers studied the galaxy NGC 4383, in the nearby Virgo cluster, revealing a gas outflow so large that it would take 20,000 years for light to travel from one side to the other.
ICRAR welcomes new Board Chair Dr David Skellern AO
March 28, 2024ICRAR is pleased to welcome Dr David Skellern AO as our new board chair. Dr Skellern will commence as Board Chair on April 1.
Radio telescope becomes stellar ‘speed camera’ in deep-space experiment
March 28, 2024Researchers have measured the jets of neutron stars to be moving at 114,000km per second – one-third the speed of light.
