The pulsar J2032 was discovered when NASA’s Fermi Space telescope spotted its varying gamma rays.
A galaxy that 'died' around the same time as England's King Richard III may help astronomers improve their cosmic accounting.
When our team saw what they’d done with our ASKAP telescope in Western Australia, they almost fell off their chairs. […]
Like an exotic dancer trailing a feather boa, a newly studied weirdo pulsar is trailing a ‘tail’ of particles across […]
On Mondays, his ground-breaking radio telescope was used to hold up his mother’s washing line. He thought the Big Bang […]
It's a gem of a project, and almost literally made of diamond. Gaia, the European Space Agency satellite launched last […]
The Compact Array has just helped a neutron star take years off its age. So much so that we think […]
Today sees the official operational launch of the Pawsey Centre, a world-class supercomputing facility in Perth, Western Australia. One of […]
Astronomers have just learned a little more about what's in the jets from a 'typical' black hole. Specifically, they have […]
How is our Milky Way Galaxy like the amber fluid? You'd be surprised. 1. Our galaxy is frothy The gas […]
“Food pills" were a staple of science fiction for decades. For our Galaxy, they may be real. The Galaxy has […]
Gravitational waves haven't even been detected yet, and they're already kicking goals. In a paper in the journal Science today, […]
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