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Interference kills the radio star finder

How do you power the world's fastest radio telescope in the remote Australian outback with renewable energy when power stations interfere with the radio signals?

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ASKAP telescope speeds up the hunt for new Fast Radio Bursts

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Astronomers detect mass of one quadrillion Earths

Dr Lisa Harvey-Smith and colleagues estimated the mass of a super massive black hole using data captured by ATCA and ASKAP.

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Bound for Bonn: Aussie astro technology heading to Germany

Our award-winning phased array feed (PAF) technology will soon head to the northern hemisphere to be installed on the world’s second largest single-dish radio telescope. At 100 metres in diameter, the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy’s (MPIfR) Effelsberg radio dish, located just outside of Bonn, Germany, is the largest dish in Europe and second largest...

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