Fred Watson: Greatest Science Cinematography
Legendary astronomer picks space films that hit close to home.
On a cold, wintery day there was nothing better than to sit down and check out this year’s SCINEMA International Scie...
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Antarctica is the perfect place for stargazing
Dome A is officially the best place for astronomy.
Have you ever wondered why stars twinkle? It’s because turbulence in the Earth’s atmosphere makes light emitted from ...
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A ‘cosmic ring of fire’ from 11 billion years ago
Collision between galaxies created rare ring galaxy.
Nearly 11 billion light years away lurks a super-rare type of galaxy that bears the scars of a galactic battle. Rathe...
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One of the constants in the universe is weird
Inconsistencies at the outer fringes of the cosmos.
New measurements of a quasar 13 billion light-years away within the universe, have found that one of the cosmological...
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Epic Australian telescope on its way back
Volunteers are restoring the Great Melbourne Telescope.
When you first see it, it looks like a ray gun from the mind of Jules Verne. Its swirling lattice-like barrel stretch...
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Star flung across the galaxy
Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is the culprit.
A star travelling through the Milky Way at more than six million km/h has been discovered by a team of international ...
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A monster galaxy found lurking in the shadows
The footprints of a monster galaxy 12.5 billion years in the past.
Astronomers have accidentally discovered the footprints of a monster galaxy in the early Universe that has never been...
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Astronomers react to black hole images
First image of black hole has amazed Australian experts.
In one of the biggest scientific announcements of recent times, an international collaboration of astronomers and ast...
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The search for dark matter finds gold
Literally a new way of detecting gold and mineral deposits.
A method for locating seams of gold and other heavy metals is the unlikely spin-off of Swinburne University’s invol...
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In search of the ghosts of dead galaxies
Ivo Labbé helped discover odd dead galaxies.
Associate Professor Ivo Labbé is hunting dead galaxies from the dawn of time. These cosmic relics passed their active...
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Engineering the Square Kilometre Array
Square Kilometre Array creates unique engineering challenges.
The largest, most powerful telescope ever conceived – the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), is going to have over a hundr...