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Star-quake vibrations lead to new estimate for Milky Way age
Data gathered by NASA’s now defunct Kepler telescope provides a solution to an astronomical mystery. An artist impression of the Milky Way, showing the thick and thin discs.Credit: NASA/JPL Caltech/R.Hurt/SSC Star-quakes recorded by NASA’s Kepler space telescope have...
Science needs true diversity to succeed – and Australian astronomy shows how we can get it
Australian astronomy punches well above its weight, in terms of the research it leads and the facilities it houses. Our scientists have recently narrowed down the time frame for the first light in the universe, and established that the black hole in the Milky...
Spin doctors: Astrophysicists find when galaxies rotate, size matters
Sky survey provides clues to how they change over time. The direction in which a galaxy spins depends on its mass, researchers have found. A team of astrophysicists analysed 1418 galaxies and found that small ones are likely to spin on a different axis to large ones....
Not long ago, the centre of the Milky Way exploded
ASTRO 3D researchers find evidence of a cataclysmic flare that punched so far out of the Galaxy, its impact was felt 200,000 light years away. A titanic, expanding beam of energy sprang from close to the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way just 3.5...
Shining a light on the Cosmic Dark Ages
Researchers hunt for a 12-billion-year-old signal that marks the end of the post Big Bang “dark age”. Astronomers are closing in on a signal that has been travelling across the Universe for 12 billion years, bringing them nearer to understanding the life and death of...
Anaemic star carries the mark of its ancient ancestor
Australian-led astronomers find the most iron-poor star in the Galaxy, hinting at the nature of the first stars in the Universe. A newly discovered ancient star containing a record-low amount of iron carries evidence of a class of even older stars, long hypothesised...