Man in the Moon tunes into Earth’s Radio

If you ever thought what happens on Earth stays on Earth, think again. Astronomers have now reported that we are sending more signals into space than we know, and we might not be the only ones in the Universe listening in. CAASTRO PhD student Ben McKinley from the ANU...

Providing a clearer view of our early Universe

A new data analysis tool will be used by CAASTRO researchers at Curtin University to handle large quantities of data coming in from the new low frequency radio telescope, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The MWA will survey the sky more thoroughly and deeply than...

Galaxies without Stars

The problem of the missing hydrogen in the early Universe… Hydrogen is the most common element in the Universe, making up 75% of all normal matter and the content of stars. Although stars themselves are hot, they can only form out of the coldest gas when a...

WiggleZ confirms the Big Picture of the Universe

We know that stars group together to form galaxies, galaxies clump to make clusters and clusters gather to create structures known as superclusters. At what scale though, if at all, does this Russian doll-like structure stop? Scientists have been debating this very...