ScienceNetwork WA

THE coming transit of Venus, where the planet Venus passes between the Sun and the Earth, will almost certainly be the last chance any of us have to see it.

LUNAR zircon collected during the Apollo 17 mission has proven itself to be cosmologically and geologically significant decades after its retrieval thanks to research led by Curtin University geology experts analysing microstructures present in the mineral.

THE International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) is a step closer to understanding how black holes can launch superfast narrow beams of ionized gas called ‘jets’, by identifying the exact moment of their formation.

A FREMANTLE business has completed the first building blocks of a revolutionary radio telescope that will allow researchers to visualise the beginnings of the universe.

CONSTRUCTION is set to begin on a radio emissions sensitive power plant that will supply renewable power to the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Australia’s Mid-West region.

DEVELOPMENT of the Murchison Wide-field Array (MWA) is underway with local industry building the first major pieces of a revolutionary new radio telescope in Western Australia.

LAST month’s international SKA-low workshop held in Perth focused on the challenges of detecting low-frequency radio waves emitted from objects throughout the universe.

THE Australian Research Council (ARC) has recently confirmed the funding of the Australian National Time and Frequency Network’s trial (NTFN) by awarding $600k to a consortium led by UWA to address the issue of telescope synchronisation.

THE interaction of dark matter with stars and gas in individual galaxies is more complicated than previously thought, according to International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR).

A WA researcher has received an Australian Laureate Fellowship for his research into meteorites and the data they hold of the origins of the solar system.