by Jonathan Nally | Jul 9, 2020 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Telescopes
ABOVE: The Anglo Australian Telescope at Siding Springs Observatory. Photo: Ángel R. López-Sánchez AUSTRALIA’S INVESTMENT IN ASTRONOMY and its hosting of two of the world’s most powerful telescopes means the country is well placed to contribute to more big...
by Jonathan Nally | Mar 5, 2020 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Telescopes
Above: Just a handful of the more-than 4,000 antennas of the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope in Western Australia. Credit: John Goldsmith A NEW $2 MILLION COMPUTING FACILITY based at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth will crunch the huge amounts of...
by Jonathan Nally | Jan 28, 2020 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Telescopes
Above: CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope is to be equipped with a new receiver system, called ‘cryoPAF,’ which will triple the telescope’s field of view. Image courtesy CSIRO. TWO OF THE CSIRO’S RADIO TELESCOPE FACILITIES — Parkes and the Australia Telescope Compact...
by Jonathan Nally | Jan 8, 2020 | Astronomy, Cosmology
Above: Artist’s impression of the binary neutron star merger producing GW190425, thought to have resulted in the formation of a black hole. See the video below for a better understanding. Credit: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet....
by Jonathan Nally | Dec 18, 2019 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Deep sky, Galaxies, News
Above: Galaxies NGC 5394 and NGC 5395, around 160 million light-years from Earth, are caught in a slow motion interaction. Image credit: NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory / Gemini Observatory / AURA. This image from the Gemini Observatory...
by Jonathan Nally | Nov 21, 2019 | Astronomy, Cosmology
Above: The afterglow of GRB 190114C and its home galaxy were imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope on February 11 and March 12, 2019. The gamma ray burst (centre of the green circle) was located about 800 light-years from the galaxy’s core. Credit: NASA, ESA, and V....
