Citizen scientists discover huge galaxy cluster

Writing their name in the stars: citizen scientists discover huge galaxy cluster Two volunteer participants in an international citizen science project have had a rare galaxy cluster that they found named after them. The pair pieced together the huge C-shaped...

Flash of invisible light helps map the cosmic web

A brief but brilliant burst of radiation that travelled at least a billion light years through Space to reach an Australian radio telescope last year has given scientists new insight into the fabric of the Universe. ICRAR-Curtin University’s Dr Ryan Shannon, who...

Renowned physicists tour Oz, explore the Universe

American theoretical physicist, Harvard Professor, best-selling author and advocate for gender equality in science Dr Lisa Randall is embarking on a speaking tour of Australia this November with the team behind the tours of Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene and Michio...

Desert telescope views sky in radio technicolour

Published today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA, or ‘GLEAM’ survey, has produced a catalogue of 300,000 galaxies observed by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), a $50 million radio telescope located...

Starving black hole returns galaxy to the shadows

For the second time since it was first observed in 1974, a nearby galaxy has mysteriously changed its look – making it one of only very few known cases, and the most dramatic one by far. Galaxy Mrk 1018, with a supermassive black hole at its centre, had been on the...