01 August 2016
SETI has new eyes on the skies
... Intelligence (SETI) experiment at low radio frequencies is underway, as researchers utilise the capabilities of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) to search the skies for the tell-tale signs of an advanced civilisation. SETI experiments using radio...
09 September 2019
Ancient light helps to unravel cosmic "dark age"
... relying on collections of receivers spread across the surface on Earth. One such project is the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA); a low frequency radio array that looks like thousands of robotic spiders stuck on square mesh tiles (see below). It sits...
28 February 2020
Record-breaking black hole eruption detected by astronomers
... X-ray space observatories. The record-breaking, gargantuan eruption was also picked up in radio data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in Australia and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India. "We've seen outbursts in the centres...
26 October 2016
Australian radio telescope shows the Universe in radio waves
...colour' view of the sky above a 'tile' of the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope, located in outback Western Australia. The Milky Way ...-Walker (ICRAR/Curtin) and the GLEAM Team. MWA tile and landscape by Dr John Goldsmith/Celestial Visions...
