We’ve detected a star barely hotter than a pizza oven – the coldest ever found to emit radio waves

Congrats to Kovi Rose whose recent paper got some good media coverage We have identified the coldest star ever found to produce radio waves – a brown dwarf too small to…
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We’ve detected a star barely hotter than a pizza oven – the coldest ever found to emit radio waves

A long-period radio transient active for three decades

Congratulations to Manisha who was part of a recent paper published in Nature this month:  This object belongs to a new class of radio transients of which only 3 are now…
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A long-period radio transient active for three decades

Bringing artificial intelligence to the search for habitable planets

University partners with Spiral Blue for the TOLIMAN space telescope mission A team led by astronomer Professor Peter Tuthill at the University of Sydney has announced a partnership with Sydney-based…
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Bringing artificial intelligence to the search for habitable planets

Research.com rankings – Joss #1 in Australia

 Research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers, has just released the 2023 Edition Ranking of Best Scientists in the field of Physics. Congratulations to Joss Bland-Hawthorn who ranked #204 in the…
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Research.com rankings – Joss #1 in Australia

From platypus to parsecs and milliCrab: why do astronomers use such weird units?

You may have heard about an asteroid set to fly near Earth that is the size of 18 platypus, or maybe the one that’s the size of 33 armadillos, or even one the…
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From platypus to parsecs and milliCrab: why do astronomers use such weird units?

Dark Side of the Universe

Documentary The Dark Side Of The Universe airs on ABC TV Amazing things happen every day. Despite this, the sum total of our sense impressions is only 5% of the…
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Dark Side of the Universe

News

A Swinburne PhD student has built an automated system featuring artificial intelligence (AI) to detect and capture the details of fast radio bursts in real time.   Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious and powerful flashes of radio waves from space, thought to originate billions of light years from the Earth.

AI now detecting Fast Radio Bursts in real-time​

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