Dec 12, 2012
A new paper by Matthew Middleton (previously at the University of Durham, now University of Amsterdam) and his large international team of co-authors has been published in Nature, bringing together X-ray and radio observations of a source in our neighbouring galaxy,...
Dec 11, 2012
SAMI, the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral Field Spectrograph, is a new instrument mounted on the Anglo-Australian Telescope and the first spectrograph to use hexabundles. A hexabundle is the extension of a technology that takes the light from a large optical...
Dec 4, 2012
A very unusual stellar object has been found that is either located in our own Galaxy or in M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest normal galaxy to us. Undetected in observations with various X-ray telescopes for many years, the 2008 European Space Agency’s...
Nov 30, 2012
ARC Chief Executive Officer, Professor Aidan Byrne, has congratulated Curtin University on the launch of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope. The eight-year project, worked on by 13 institutions within Australia and internationally, will give researchers new...
Nov 23, 2012
Previously, Sydney based CAASTRO Research Fellow Dr Stephen Curran discussed far-away radio galaxies and quasars that seem not to contain any cool neutral hydrogen gas – the fuel for star formation – (2008 publication in MNRAS) and presented a physically plausible...
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