Curtin University researchers have undertaken the world’s biggest survey of low frequency satellite radio emissions, finding Starlink satellites are significantly interfering with radio astronomy observations, potentially impacting discovery and research.
Australian scientists are on the verge of answering humanity’s biggest questions about our cosmic origins and whether we’re alone in the universe.
We’re spending another week on air here at the Kestrel Nest EcoHut, and please pardon the interruption to the science and space news for a day … but we have an incredible product to show off.
Kestrel Nest Ecohut in southern New South Wales has become the first accomodation in Australia to be internationally recognised as “dark-sky” accommodation, sparking hopes of a new tourism boom.
Australian Astronomical Optics at Macquarie University and the Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology have partnered to process a cosmic data deluge from Chile’s new Rubin Observatory, supporting the world’s largest sky survey capturing 20 terabytes nightly.
For thousands of years, Australians have been looking up at our stars, observing and interpreting star positions for their daily life. Today, Australia has one of the world’s highest rates
For thousands of years, Australians have been looking up at our stars, observing and interpreting star positions for their daily life. Today, Australia has one of the world’s highest rates of light pollution per person.
Members have first play access to two great Talkin’ Science Deep Dives focusing on Western Australian astronomy achievements.
Curtin University has played a major role in an out-of-this-world international study which has taken the search for extraterrestrial life into exciting new territory.
The world’s most sensitive detector sets new limits for finding weakly interacting massive particles or WIMPs
Macquarie University’s Huntsman Telescope has successfully demonstrated daytime astronomy
Astronomers have produced the first high-resolution map of a massive explosion in a nearby galaxy
Curtin University-led research has discovered a rare dust particle trapped in an ancient extra-terrestrial meteorite that was formed by a star other than our sun
the super-fast speeds of a neutron star’s powerful jets have been recorded by CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array and the European Space Agency’s Integral observatory
At least one in a dozen stars show evidence of planetary ingestion according to a paper published in Nature.
An international research team have made incredibly detailed observations of the earliest merger of galaxies ever witnessed.
