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...

New ARC centres will stand on the shoulders of CAASTRO

Sep 9, 2016

CAASTRO, the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics, has welcomed this week’s announcement of two new Centres of Excellence that will build on its pioneering work: CAASTRO-3D (the ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in Three Dimensions),...