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Japan’s space agency joins us to take near-space balloons up, up, and away

We're going sky-high with Japan’s space agency, JAXA, as they become one of our latest partners in space, launching high-altitude balloons in our unique Alice Springs facility.

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Birth of the first stars seen from Australia

After nearly a decade of listening with a custom-built, table-sized antenna at our Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in remote Western Australia, researchers have detected signs of the first stars to emerge in the Universe.

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Australia takes up space in 2018

Australia will be establishing its own space agency so what’s next for this new frontier? Here are the top five trends we see for the space industry in 2018.

2017 in science: Cassini crashed, dinosaurs discovered and spiders sorted

As the end of the year fast approaches, we wanted to share one last gift with you: some of the top science stories of 2017.

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Our top telescope tech travels FAST

We’ve designed and built a specialised ‘camera’ for the world’s largest single dish telescope. Soon it will be searching the skies for pulsars.

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ASKAP helps us see more of our intergalatic neighbour

Everybody likes to know their neighbours, even on a galactic scale. Our new ASKAP telescope has given us the most detailed radio image yet of our closest neighbour, the dwarf galaxy known as the Small Magellanic Cloud.

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Fifty years ago Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars and changed our view of the universe

In mid 1967, PhD student Jocelyn Bell at Cambridge University was helping to build a telescope. She went on to discover a little bit of "scruff" - the first evidence of a pulsar.

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CSIRO and NASA – a partnership as unlimited as space itself

A new agreement signed this week in Washington DC provides the framework for Australia – and CSIRO – to support NASA’s exploration of the Solar System.

Global collaboration is making waves in space

LIGO-Virgo detects the collision of neutron stars for the first time, adding crucial new details to our understanding of the Universe.

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After the alert: radio ‘eyes’ hunt the source of the gravitational waves

All it took was a single email alert to send the world's astronomers searching for the source of the latest gravitational wave detected.

A Facebooker’s guide to the universe: space facts from our space fans

We know the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything is 42 but what do our Facebook fans think are the most interesting facts about space?

Few Australians know the unique role the country plays in the global space network

Australia is positioned perfectly to look up into the centre of the galaxy — something you can’t do from many other parts of the world. That outstanding location and our world-class capability in space science underpins a phenomenal contribution to international space programs.

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