#ATCA

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Vacation students reach for the stars

Would you spend your summer working on real-world astronomy and astrophysics problems? We spoke with four students who did just that.

A satellite dish with stars in space in the background.

Celebrating our (stellar) space women

We’re introducing you to a star cluster of our women who work in space.

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A brain transplant for one of Australia’s top telescopes

An upgrade for the Australia Telescope Compact Array will enable major new discoveries about the Universe.

Aerial image of one of the unique L-shaped LIGO Observatories in the US – the Livingston Detector Site. Image: altech MIT LIGO Lab

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.

The Australia Telescope Compact Array in Narrabri, NSW. David Smyth/CSIRO, Author provided

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.

‘Hairy stars’ may be roaming our galaxy

Looking at the radio emissions from distant quasars, which appear to twinkle, researchers from Many Astrophyics have found what they think might be the answer: hairy stars.

ATCA reveals white dwarfs, red dwarfs and mystery rays

Observations made by our Australia Telescope Compact Array have provided the ‘coup dé grace’ of evidence in the discovery of a unique pair of stars, proving for the first time that white dwarf stars do emit pulsating radiation.

The Compact Array. Photo: David Smyth

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.

Night time view of dishes that are part of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) - a next-generation radio telescope in remote Western Australia

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.

Dwarf galaxies feel the blast from larger neighbours

Dwarf galaxies are the most abundant galaxies in the universe. Yet understanding how these systems behave in galaxy group environments is still a mystery.

Death in the 15th century

A galaxy that 'died' around the same time as England's King Richard III may help astronomers improve their cosmic accounting.

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Alcohol points to something fundamental

Australian astronomers Simon Ellingsen (University of Tasmania) and our own Shari Breen, and their international collaborators, have discovered the first class […]