Every clear night for decades, Rod Stubbings from Tetoora Road in Gippsland has looked at a set of about 700 stars annually, recording changes in their brightness. He is just one of three people worldwide to have made 400,000 measurements of the brightness of variable stars. His observations have helped astronomers in over a dozen…
At least one in a dozen stars show evidence of planetary ingestion according to a paper published in Nature today. The international research team studied twin stars that should have identical composition. But, in about eight percent of cases, they differ, perplexing astronomers. The team, led by ASTRO 3D researchers has found that the difference…
Galaxies and stars developed faster after the Big Bang than expected Detailed pictures of one of the very first galaxies show growth was much faster than we thought An international research team have made unprecedentedly detailed observations of the earliest merger of galaxies ever witnessed. They suggest stars developed much faster and more efficiently than…
Sunday is World Hearing Day. Many people wait too long to act with hearing issues that could be improved. MindEar’s audiologists and tinnitus researchers are available for media interviews Saturday and Sunday morning to encourage people to do something about their hearing issues. Details below Changing mindsets: Let’s make ear and hearing care a reality…
A German aircraft flying out of Cairns is measuring the chemistry of the clouds above Australia and the Pacific. FEBRUARY 23, 2024: This week, a German research aircraft is sampling air up to 15 km above Australia and the Pacific Ocean. The CAFE-Pacific Mission aims to better understand: Flying out of Cairns in the northeast…
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Giganto were the biggest apes that have ever been – 3 metres tall and weighing in at 250 kg. Related to orang-utans, and distantly to humans, they died out over 200,000 years ago at a time when other great apes were thriving. The first evidence of Gigantopithecus blacki came from teeth found in a Chinese…
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… all while discovering how the Universe evolved, how galaxies form and where the elements come from. Around the world, research agencies are struggling to achieve gender parity. A paper published in Nature Astronomy today reports how a national Australian astronomy centre achieved equal numbers of women and men using science.
New images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have helped Australian astronomers unlock secrets of how infant galaxies started an explosion of star formation in the very early Universe. Some early galaxies were abundant with a gas that glowed so bright it outshone emerging stars. In research published today, astronomers have now discovered just…