Mysterious ORCs in Space Revealed Using the World’s Most Powerful Radio Telescopes
Astronomy’s newest mystery objects, odd radio circles or ORCs, have been pulled into sharp focus by an international team of astronomers using the world’s most…
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60 Years After It First Gazed at the Skies, the Parkes Radio Telescope Is Still Making Breakthroughs
The CSIRO’s 64-meter Parkes Radio Telescope was commissioned on October 31, 1961. At the time it was the most advanced radio telescope in the world,…
Breakthrough Listen: Mysterious Signal “From” Proxima Centauri Probably Not Alien Civilization
An intriguing candidate signal picked up last year by the Breakthrough Listen project has been subjected to intensive analysis that suggests it is unlikely to…
A Mysterious Signal Looked Like a Sign of Alien Technology – Here’s What the Investigation Revealed
In December last year, the media reported an intriguing signal we at the Breakthrough Listen project found in our radio telescope data. Dubbed BLC1, the…
New Atlas of the Universe Created – Includes a Million Galaxies We’ve Never Seen Before
A world-leading CSIRO radio telescope has conducted its first survey of the entire southern sky in record speed and detail, creating a new atlas of…
Astronomers Witness Slow Death of Neighbouring Dwarf Galaxy
The new peer-reviewed study of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), which is a tiny fraction of the size and mass of the Milky Way galaxy,…
Astronomers Identify the Precise Location of a Fast Radio Burst in a Distant Galaxy
An international team of astronomers used a combination of radio and optical telescopes to identify the precise location of a fast radio burst (FRB) in…
Cosmic Search Casts Doubts on Our Understanding of Galaxies and Black Holes
After monitoring 24 pulsars with the Parkes Radio Telescope for 11 years, new research casts doubt on our understanding of galaxies and black holes. For…
NASA’s Opportunity Reveals That Mars Could Have Supported Life
New findings from NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reveal that Mars had an ancient wet environment that was milder and could have supported life. Some…
Astronomers Use Gravitational Waves to Understand Black Hole Growth
Using data from the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope, astronomers use gravitational waves to better understand the growth of massive black holes. Supermassive black holes: every…
[email protected] Project Discovers 24 New Pulsars in Archival Data
Using the combined computing power of 200,000 private PCs, the [email protected] project discovered 24 new pulsars in archival data. The combined computing power of 200,000…
Astronomers Discover Mysterious Bursts of Radio Waves
Astronomers using the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope have discovered radio bursts originating from billions of light years away, leaving the scientists to speculating about their…
CSIRO Detects Raw Materials Used in the Making of the First Stars
Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array, two new studies detail the discovery of raw materials used in the making of stars. A CSIRO radio telescope…
Supersonic Outflows Contain a Million Times the Energy of an Exploding Star
In a newly published study, an international team of astronomers describe how they detected and mapped outflows of charged particles from the center of our…
Galaxies are Hiding More Atomic Hydrogen Gas than Previously Calculated
Using observations made with radio telescopes, astronomer Dr. Braun has discovered that the galaxies around us are hiding about a third more atomic hydrogen gas…
Southern Ocean Research Shows Decrease in Dense Antarctic Bottom Water
The latest research from a team of scientists shows that the amount of dense Antarctic Bottom Water is roughly 40% of what it was when…
