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Parkes Observatory detects first ‘live’ fast radio burst
A schematic illustration of CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope receiving the polarised signal from the new ‘fast radio burst.’ Image credit: Swinburne Astronomy ProductionsA strange phenomenon has been...
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Fossil globular star clusters reveal their age
A cosmic timeline showing the birth of the universe in a Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago to the present day. Using the Keck Observatory, an international team of researchers led by Professor Forbes of...
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New method solves 40-year-old mystery on the size of shadowy galaxies
Artist’s impression of the power of background galaxies to measure the size of gas clouds compared to the conventional method of using quasars. Image credit: Adrian Malec and Marie Martig.Using the...
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Ancient gas cloud may be a relic from the death of first stars
Snapshot from a simulation of the first stars in the universe, showing how the gas cloud might have become enriched with heavy elements. The image above shows one of the first stars exploding,...
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Adding a new dimension to the early chemistry of the solar system
Image credit: NASA/FUSE/Lynette Cook.Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne and the University of Lyon, France, calculated a two-dimensional map of the dust chemistry in the...
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Astronomers detect double ‘peanut shell’ galaxies
The large peanut shell-shaped bulge at the centre of the disc galaxy NGC 128. Image credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey / Aladin Sky Atlas / A. Graham, B. Ciambur (Swinburne University of...
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Deepest 3-D galaxy map suggests Einstein’s theory stands true
A 3-D map of the universe spanning 12 to 14.5 billion light-years. Image credit: NAOJ; partial data supplied by: CFHT, SDSS.By using the Fibre Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) on the Subaru Telescope,...
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Who stole all the stars?
Artist’s impression of a flare from a star partly behind a black hole. Image credit: James Josephides, Swinburne University of Technology.Investigating the millions of missing stars from the centres —...
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Mapping the cosmic web with fast radio bursts
Artist’s impression of a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) reaching Earth. The colours represent the burst arriving at different radio wavelengths, with long wavelengths (red) arriving several seconds after short...
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