|
|
|
|
|
Light at the end of the tunnel
We hope you are all well and coping with COVID-19 restrictions.
Online activities have exploded over the past few months, ICRAR's included! Our weekly livestreams on YouTube have doubled our online audience, and AstroQuest users have increased dramatically.
As always, our team of professional science communicators, with the help of our researchers and postgraduate students, deliver many outreach and education activities throughout the year, and usually across the country. Now we bring them to you online. See our website for the full list of ICRAR online activities.
Finally, please keep up the social distancing and stay safe!
|
|
|
|
|
|
| World record attempt |
Help the Australasian Dark Sky Alliance map light pollution and break a world record!
On Sunday 21 June 2020, the darkest day of year, record the light pollution in your area using the Globe at Night webapp.
You could be a world record holder AND help scientists map light pollution and the impacts on the environment. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Astronomy Wednesdays |
|
|
Thanks to ICRAR and ASTRO 3D, each Wednesday, 7:30pm AWST we have been streaming a live lecture to our YouTube channel. Tonight Prof Peter Quinn is giving us an update on the Square Kilometre Array.
Next week, our series concludes with Dr Sabine Bellstedt with 'Cosmic Cluedo: How to deduce a galaxy’s past'.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| CITIZEN SCIENCE |
If you're looking for something to do while you're at home in front of your computer, look no further than AstroQuest!
Sign up for free and complete quests to help Australian scientists understand how galaxies grow and evolve. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| LATEST EDITION OF Contact: the SKA magazine |
|
|
| All the latest from the SKA Office in Manchester, UK. |
| Read More |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| June 2, 2020 |
| BLACK HOLE OUTBURST CAUGHT ON VIDEO |
| Astronomers have caught a black hole hurling hot material into space at close to the speed of light. |
| Read More |
|
|
|
|
|
| May 27, 2020 |
| COSMIC BURSTS UNVEIL UNIVERSE’S MISSING MATTER |
| Astronomers have used mysterious fast radio bursts to solve a decades-old mystery of ‘missing matter’, long predicted to exist in the Universe but never detected—until now. |
| Read More |
|
|
|
|
|
| May 26, 2020 |
| ASTRONOMERS SEE ‘COSMIC RING OF FIRE’, 11 BILLION YEARS AGO |
Astronomers have captured an image of a super-rare type of galaxy – described as a “cosmic ring of fire” – as it existed 11 billion years ago.
|
| Read More |
|
|
|
|
|
| May 21, 2020 |
| EARLY DISK GALAXY PUTS FORMATION MODELS IN A SPIN |
| Published today in Nature, an international team of researchers has observed a massive, rotating disk galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—1.5 billion years earlier in cosmic history than astronomers had expected to find such a galaxy based on previous studies. |
| Read More |
|
|
|
|
|
| May 1, 2020 |
| OPENING A 3D X-RAY EYE ONTO THE UNIVERSE |
| Astronomers at the UWA node of ICRAR have today signed an MOU with the German eROSITA team to join forces and combine their respective data to address some of the outstanding questions in astronomy today. |
| Read More |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Citizen science survey |
| We want to get to know you and what you think of our citizen science project, AstroQuest. This survey takes around ten minutes. All results are anonymous and all participation is voluntary. |
| Take the survey |
|
|
|
|
|
| VIEW THE SKA IN AUGMENTED REALITY |
| The Square Kilometre Array is now available in augmented reality! We’ve been busy developing this interactive augmented reality with Quivervision. |
| Read More |
|
|
|
|
|
| VIEW THE SOUTHERN SKY IN VIRTUAL REALITY |
| Download the free GLEAMoscope app from Apple or Android and use your own headset to explore the night sky in radio colour. |
|
|
|
|
|
| Every Tuesday 4-5pm AWST |
| SPIRIT 101 ONLINE Professional Development |
| Find our about our remote telescope program (mainly for Years 9-10), already online for many schools, with this professional development opportunity for teachers each Tuesday 4-5pm AWST. Sign up for the session via zoom, and after completing SPIRIT 101 you’ll have access to the Outreach Officer for class sessions through your own class Webex/zoom if you want. Once you’re up to speed on using SPIRIT, you’ll be given access to everything needed for your students to run a long-term project. |
| Book online |
|
|
|
|
|
| Every Wednesday 4-430pm AWST |
| INTRODUCTION TO ASTROQUEST FOR TEACHERS |
| AstroQuest is a citizen science project, where you and your students complete quests to help Australian scientists understand how galaxies grow and evolve, and it can be used as an activity within the classroom – both virtual and face to face. We will run weekly introductory sessions on how to sign up as a teacher and use the website with your class, Wednesdays 4-430pm AWST, and teachers can sign up via zoom. AstroQuest has teacher guides (including curriculum links) for Year 4 and 5/6 Digital Technologies, Year 10 Science, and Unit 1 Physics. |
| Book online |
|
|
|
|
|
| Every Thursday 4-430pm AWST |
| ASK AN ASTROPHYSICIST (FOR TEACHERS & PARENTS) |
| Our Outreach Officer will be online each Thursday 400-430pm, any teacher or parent can sign up via zoom. You can jump into the video chat and ask about space science concepts or the universe in general that will help you teach your class. You can also book a private session for your class with our Outreach Officer. |
| Book online |
|
|
|
|
|
| In case you missed it: Astronomy news |
|
|
|
| Astronomy WA online events |
| Astronomy WA members have a range of online activities available during the shutdown. They'll keep this page updated as members send through more information. If you'd like something added to this page, please let them know through the contact form. |
| Read More |
|
|
|
