ICRAR researchers win national recognition
June 20, 2022Dr Adelle Goodwin, Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker, and Dr Adam Stevens have all been recognised in this year's Astronomical Society of Australia awards.
Mysterious object unlike anything astronomers have seen before
January 27, 2022A team mapping radio waves in the Universe has discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour, and it’s unlike anything astronomers have seen before. The team who discovered it think it could be a neutron star or a white dwarf—collapsed cores of stars—with an ultra-powerful magnetic field.
Curtin researcher helps find largest supernova remnant by looking in right place
March 5, 2021An international team of researchers, using powerful new X-ray telescope eROSITA to conduct the first all-sky X-ray survey in 25 years, have detected the largest supernova remnant ever discovered with X-rays, dubbed Hoinga.
