CAASTRO’s Bright Stars to shine upon high school students

Dec 21, 2016

In time for the New Year, we have taken delivery of our latest major legacy product in the Education & Outreach portfolio, our “Bright Stars” wall calendar. A brain-child of and collaboration between CAASTRO’s Dr Wiebke Ebeling (Curtin...

CAASTRO student’s DASH will speed up supernova classification

Dec 8, 2016

CAASTRO student Daniel Muthukrishna has improved the speed at which supernova can be classified by building a program that works in the same way as the human brain – and has won an award for this project. Daniel, a software engineering student at the University of...

EAGLE simulation shows gain & loss of galaxies’ angular momentum

Sep 29, 2016

Angular momentum is a fundamental property of galaxies, together with mass and energy. It is crucial to many scaling relations, for example the relation between a galaxy’s luminosity and its rotational velocity and size. Galaxy formation theory postulates that the...