Hiding In Plain Sight: Astronomers Find New Type Of Stellar Object
“They missed it because they hadn’t expected to find anything like it.” 2023 July 19, Nature
Read More Category:
A Very ‘SMART’ New Survey
Finding the astronomical equivalent of a needle in a haystack, the ‘SMART’ way! A team led by ICRAR-Curtin researchers have published details in PASA of how they are using the MWA telescope to find new pulsars in our galaxy. 2023 April 27, Space Australia
Read More
On the march toward nanohertz gravitational waves using millisecond pulsars
Pulsars create repeating flashes of radio light, and are so regular that you can set your watch to them. In fact, that’s exactly what some astronomers want to do! 2022 June 28, ICRAR
Read More
Mysterious Object Unlike Anything Astronomers Have Seen Before
A team mapping radio waves in the Universe has discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour. 2022 January 27, Nature
Read More
Outback radio telescope discovers dense, spinning, dead star
2021 April 21, ICRAR, Particle, Springer, Science Daily, The West Australian
Read MoreColliding neutron stars revealed by gravitational waves and massive fireball
2017 October 17, Curtin University Media Release, ABC News
Read MoreAstronomers hazard a ride in a ‘drifting carousel’ to understand pulsating stars
What sounds like a stomach-turning ride at an amusement park might hold the key to unravelling the mysterious mechanism that causes beams of radio waves to shoot out from pulsars − super-magnetic rotating stars in our Galaxy. 2017 March 21, Curtin University Media Release
Read MoreDistant galaxy identified as the origin of mysterious bright burst
For the first time an international team of scientists, using a combination of radio and optical telescopes including the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), has managed to identify the precise location of a fast radio burst (FRB). 2016 February 25, Curtin University Media Release
Read More int(1)
