Hungry Galaxies Grow Fat on the Flesh of Their Neighbours
Galaxies grow large by eating their smaller neighbours, new [...]
Call for White Papers for Next Centre Science for ASTRO 3D
ASTRO 3D is calling for White Papers for the Next [...]
New Limits on Finding the First Stars and Galaxies
This month’s media comes from Associate Professor Cathryn Trott [...]
How many radio sources are in the sky?
A significant challenge to detecting the weak signal from [...]
Come in Moon! Can you hear us?
The first Monthly Media for 2020 is from Dr Ben [...]
Star-quake vibrations lead to new estimate for Milky Way age
Data gathered by NASA’s now defunct Kepler telescope provides a [...]
Science needs true diversity to succeed – and Australian astronomy shows how we can get it
Australian astronomy punches well above its weight, in terms of the research it leads and the facilities it houses.
Our scientists have recently narrowed down the time frame for the first light in the universe, and established that the black hole in the Milky Way had a massive explosion just 3.5 million years ago. Our facilities – from the Murchison Widefield Array in WA to the Anglo Australian Telescope in New South Wales – are important components in the global astronomical ecosystem.