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Wishing you a happy and healthy holiday season!

ICRAR has had a busy and productive 2019! We started our new 2019-2024 ICRAR III program in July (successfully concluding the 2013-2019 ICRAR II program), many of our staff and students were recognised for their excellence, and we held our ICRAR-con in September at Pullman Bunker Bay Resort.

ICRAR was recognised by the Astronomical Society of Australia for its commitment to advancing diversity and inclusion in astronomical sciences and technology with Pleiades Awards for our nodes - Silver for Curtin University and Gold for UWA. Astrofest was a joint winner in the Premier’s Science Awards, and ICRAR authors have published over 130 papers since July this year. 

As the year comes to a close, ICRAR is now looking forward to our long term future as part of the SKA Project and the international Astronomy, Engineering, and Data Intensive Astronomy community.

Thank you to all our collaborators and supporters for a great year. Enjoy our recent highlights and news, and see you in 2020!

 
 
WORLD’S FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTER PROCESSES HUGE DATA RATES IN PREPARATION FOR MEGA-TELESCOPE PROJECT
Scientists have processed 400 gigabytes of data a second as they tested data pipelines for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope.
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APRIM2020

The 14th Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting (APRIM) will be held in Perth in July 2020, jointly hosted by CSIRO and ICRAR. 
We expect to welcome around 600 delegates from across the Asia-Pacific region. APRIM is a unique opportunity to present the latest astronomical and space research to a broad but regionally-focused audience, as well as make new connections and initiate new collaborations.
We encourage sponsors and exhibitors to register their interest

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Save the date for Astrofest 2020
Astrofest is back in 2020 with an astronomically awesome event the whole family will enjoy!

Taking place at Curtin Stadium on Saturday the 29th February, this astronomy festival of epic proportions will be an engaging celebration of Australian science.
 
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SKA News
LATEST EDITION OF Contact: the SKA magazine
All the latest from the SKA Office in Manchester, UK. 
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ICRAR News
December 10, 2019
Ken and Julie Michael Prizes for 2019
Mengyao Xue from ICRAR-Curtin and Fei Qin from ICRAR-UWA have been awarded the Ken and Julie Michael Prizes for 2019.
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November 21, 2019
MAGIC TELESCOPES SEE MOST EPIC EXPLOSION
A violent explosion in a distant galaxy has broken the record for the brightest source of high-energy light in the Universe.
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November 20, 2019
OUTBACK TELESCOPE CAPTURES MILKY WAY CENTRE, DISCOVERS REMNANTS OF DEAD STARS
A radio telescope in the Western Australian outback has captured a spectacular new view of the centre of the galaxy in which we live, the Milky Way.
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NOVEMBER 18, 2019
SPIN DOCTORS: ASTROPHYSICISTS FIND WHEN GALAXIES ROTATE, SIZE MATTERS
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.
 
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OCTOBER 22, 2019
WORLD’S FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTER PROCESSES HUGE DATA RATES IN PREPARATION FOR MEGA-TELESCOPE PROJECT

Scientists have processed 400 gigabytes of data a second as they tested data pipelines for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019
ALMA EXPLORES A COSMIC JELLYFISH

One of the closest jellyfish galaxies to us, the Norma cluster galaxy ESO 137-001, was recently fully mapped using ALMA and other telescopes.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

GALAXY SURROUNDED BY A HALO OF TRANQUIL GAS

Using a Fast radio Burst, astronomers studying the outskirts of a distant galaxy have discovered the galaxy sits in a serene ocean of gas.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
EXHIBITION EXPLORES THE NIGHT SKY THROUGH CULTURAL INTERPRETATION

A new exhibition at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery will explore the concept of the night sky from cultural, scientific and artistic perspectives.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
FIRST CANADIAN-LED ALMA SURVEY TO INVESTIGATE THE IMPACT OF GALAXY ENVIRONMENT ON STAR FORMATION

The first-ever Canadian-led Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Large Program will be led by former ICRAR PhD student, Dr Toby Brown.

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September 10, 2019
AND THEN THERE WAS LIGHT: LOOKING FOR THE FIRST STARS IN THE UNIVERSE
ASTRO 3D: Researchers hunt for a 12-billion-year-old signal that marks the end of the post Big Bang “dark age”.
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AUGUST 14, 2019
PERTH OBSERVATORY AND AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST COMMUNITY ASTRONOMY EVENT WIN STELLAR AWARD
An astronomy festival that attracts more than 4000 people a year and WA’s oldest observatory have starred at the Premier’s Science Awards.
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JULY 12, 2019
ICRAR RECOGNISED FOR COMMITMENT TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN ASA PLEIADES AWARDS

ICRAR has been recognised by the Astronomical Society of Australia for its commitment to advancing diversity and inclusion in astronomical sciences and technology.

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JULY 9, 2019
STAR FORMATION MAY BE HALTED BY COLD IONISED HYDROGEN
For the first time ionised hydrogen has been detected at the lowest frequency ever towards the centre of our galaxy.
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In case you missed it: Astronomy news
Diversity and inclusion in Australian astronomy
ASTRO-3D Director, Professor Lisa Kewley, says that science needs true diversity to succeed – and Australian astronomy shows how we can get it.
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APRIM2020 - Abstracts open
You are invited to submit an abstract and attend the 14th Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting (APRIM), which will be hosted in Perth, Western Australia on July 6-10, 2020 at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre.
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