Milky Way ties with neighbour in galactic arms race
February 15, 2018Astronomers have discovered that our nearest big neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy, is roughly the same size as the Milky Way.
Astronomers peer into the lair of a mysterious cosmic radio burster
January 11, 2018An international team of astronomers has used two of the world's largest radio telescopes to show that a mysterious source of radio bursts is in an astonishingly extreme and unusual environment.
Designing The SKA Telescopes – From Lab To Outback: The Story Of AAVS1 So Far
December 19, 2017The Aperture Array Verification System (AAVS1) is one of the major milestones in the journey towards delivering the final design for SKA1-low, the Australian arm of the first phase of the SKA telescope.