Oct 22, 2015
Come time-travelling! In a special free talk at the University of Sydney on 29 October, CAASTRO Associate Investigator Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn (University of Sydney) will take you back more than 13 billion years to when strange giant stars roamed the Universe....
Oct 20, 2015
The Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) is a period in the early Universe when the first stars and galaxies began radiating. Before this time, the Universe existed in the Dark Ages, a time marked by a lack of radiating sources and a neutral hydrogen intergalactic medium....
Oct 16, 2015
The instruments of modern day observational astronomy have been steadily moving towards bigger telescopes and deeper surveys. A number of facilities have recently been (or will soon be) commissioned to survey the sky in unprecedented detail: at radio wavelengths, the...
Oct 13, 2015
Over the past two years, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope has been used to conduct a general survey for transient and variable radio sources, the MWA Transients Survey (MWATS). Although the MWA’s large field of view alone gives it impressive survey...
Sep 30, 2015
Galactic scaling relations are an important part of extragalactic research as they are tracers of galaxy evolution processes and are also quite often useful observational tools. The Tully-Fisher Relation (TFR) is one such scaling relation linking the mass (using...
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