Leading Australian telescopes to get technology upgrades
January 17, 2020CSIRO’s iconic Parkes radio telescope – fondly known as ‘The Dish’ – will get a new receiver that will significantly increase the amount of sky it can see at any one time, enabling new science and supporting local innovation in the space sector.
MAGIC telescopes see most epic explosion
November 21, 2019A violent explosion in a distant galaxy has broken the record for the brightest source of high-energy light in the Universe.
Fatal attraction burns bright between star and black hole
December 13, 2016An extraordinarily brilliant point of light seen in a distant galaxy, and dubbed ASASSN-15lh, was thought to be the brightest supernova ever seen. But new observations from several observatories, including ESO, have now cast doubt on this classification.
