It used to take weeks to find any of these mysterious signals from deep in space but when the new telescope started looking it found one within days. Then another.
One woman’s role in designing the world’s largest radio telescope
The Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, is a next-generation radio telescope that will be vastly more sensitive than the best present-day instruments. It will give astronomers remarkable insights into the formation of the early Universe, including the emergence of the first stars, galaxies and other structures. We caught up with research engineer Mia Baquiran to find out more about this amazing new instrument and her role in getting it off the ground and into the skies.
The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder finally hits the big-data highway
After months of running in test-mode, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope is now gathering data at an incredible rate to give us a new look at how our universe works.
A machine astronomer could help us find the unknowns in the universe
It’s almost impossible for any human to spot something unknown or unusual in the massive amount of data collected by our telescopes. So we’re teaching an intelligent machine to search the data for us.
Galaxies sail on a tranquil sea, cosmic flash shows
A bright flash in the sky gives has given us some clues about what lies between galaxies.
Putting our stamp on history
The Netherlands have issued a new stamp series showcasing the unique 400 year relationship between the Netherlands and Australia – and we’ve made the cut!
What to do when your atomic clock just isn’t accurate enough
Find out how our Australian researchers are developing a super-stable atomic clock to keep the Square Kilometre Array in sync.
Solving universal mysteries all in a night’s work for ASKAP
Think you know all there is to know about our newest radio telescope, ASKAP? Think again.
Very high beam: ASKAP telescope creates world-first image of the cosmos
Our next-generation radio telescope just created an image of the cosmos with the most number of ‘beams’ ever produced to date, trained to the one patch of sky.