Nov 1, 2012
The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is the low-frequency SKA precursor being built at the radio-quiet Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia and will be sensitive enough to pick up faint radio signals from the very early Universe. This era...
Oct 25, 2012
All galaxies in our Universe (ours included!) move with respect to each other in two ways. Firstly, as has been known for over a century now, the Universe is expanding, moving distant galaxies away from each other. On top of this, galaxies move toward and around...
Oct 11, 2012
Professor Steven Tingay named WA Science Ambassador of the Year Science and Innovation Minister John Day congratulated Professor Tingay, as well as the five other award recipients and the 2012 Western Australian Science Hall of Fame Inductee, all of whom were honoured...
Oct 11, 2012
With the world awaiting construction of the ultimate radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the concept of interferometry has found unprecedented attention. In short, we can achieve a similar sensitivity, resolution, and collecting area as that of a much...
Oct 5, 2012
In their 2008 publication, Stephen Curran and colleagues discussed their study of far-away galaxies that are devoid of cool hydrogen gas – the fuel for star formation. Since observing distant galaxies also means looking far back in time (in this case, 11.5 billion...
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