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A new facility at The Australian National University (ANU) will help scientists detect some of the most extreme events in the universe and put Australia “front and centre” of the exciting field of gravitational wave science. Gravitational waves are ripples in space and time, but they are weak and extremely hard to detect. It needs the cataclysmic collapse of a massive star or
Scientists map over half a billion celestial objects in the universe
Credit: Angel R. López-Sánchez /Australian Astronomical Observatory,Macquarie University.
More than 690 million celestial objects have been catalogued, photographed and are now available online for exploration by the public, thanks to an international research collaboration.
In a collaboration including The University of Queensland, The Australian National University and researchers from around Australia, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) has released its second set of data, mapping roughly an eighth of the night sky and seeing far back in time to half the age of the known universe.
UQ’s Professor Tamara Davis, co-leader of the Australian venture (OzDES) with the ANU’s Dr Christopher Lidman, said the project was attempting to answer the big questions.
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