Using galaxies as cosmic telescopes to reveal the diets of the black holes at the heart of every galaxy. Anglo-Australian Observatory Astronomer David Floyd has been able to observe matter falling into a super-massive black hole – one of the Universe’s brightest objects.
An international team of astronomers has discovered the oldest and most distant carbon in the Universe, but there’s not enough of it to support standard theories of how the Universe lit up, a member from Swinburne University of Technology has calculated. In the early Universe a dark pervasive fog of neutral hydrogen gas lurked everywhere.…
Chris Wright has discovered enough water to fill our planet’s oceans a million times. Unfortunately the water is in a stellar nursery in the Orion constellation about 1500 light years away. Wright, an astronomer at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, has used an orbital telescope to explore regions of the universe/galaxy where stars…
Australian telescope finds missing galaxies on our doorstep. NSW astronomers have found new galaxies originally thought to be stars. They think there could be 150,000 of them in our neighbourhood.
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Fresh Science is a national competition and training program helping early-career researchers find and share their stories of discovery.
We take young researchers with no media experience and help them become media spokespeople for their science, and reach stakeholders in government and industry.
Fresh Science gives finalists a taste of life in the limelight, with a day of media training, a day of training in stakeholder engagement, and a public event in their home state.
Alumni of the program include Professor Allan Duffy and Dr Niraj Lal.
Read some of the fresh science we discovered in 2021 here.
