Sep 21, 2015
Australia and China have established a new joint research centre in astronomy that will boost Antarctic astronomy and facilitate cooperation on future telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array. The centre was formed through an agreement between the ARC Centre of...
Sep 7, 2015
Trained volunteers are as good as professional astronomers at finding jets shooting from massive black holes and matching them to their host galaxies, research suggests. Scientists working on citizen science project Radio Galaxy Zoo developed an online tutorial to...
Jul 7, 2015
The discovery was announced at the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting. The galaxy was uncovered in radio emission travelling to Earth using CSIRO’s Australian SKA Pathfinder telescope (ASKAP), located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO). CAASTRO...
Jun 1, 2015
By creatively using a radio telescope to see in 3D, astronomers have detected the existence of tubular plasma structures in the inner layers of the magnetosphere surrounding the Earth. “For over 60 years, scientists believed these structures existed but by...
Jan 19, 2015
Snap! Astronomers using CSIRO’s 64-m Parkes radio telescope in eastern Australia have for the first time seen a ‘fast radio burst’ — a short, sharp flash of radio waves from an unknown source — happening live. This brings us a step closer to understanding the...
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