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Illustration of the distant galaxy 8 billion light-years away (red), magnified by an unrelated foreground disk galaxy, resulting in a red ring. Splitting up the radio light into different colours, as a prism does, reveals the hydroxyl gigamaser (top-right rainbow-coloured line). Inter-University Institute for Data-Intensive Astronomy (IDIA)

South African telescope detects record‑breaking signal from the early universe

Scientists have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected. This is a natural space laser.
An artist’s impression of the Square Kilometre Array telescope in South Africa. (SKAO)

Information collected by the world’s largest radio telescope will be stored and processed by global data centres

The world’s largest space telescope, comprising thousands of antennae in the southern hemisphere, will generate massive amounts of data — some of which will be processed in Canada.
Ilgari Inyayimaha (Shared Sky), painted by artists Margaret Whitehurst, Jenny Green, Barbara Merritt, Charmaine Green, Kevin Merritt, Sherryl Green, Tracey Green, Wendy Jackamarra, Susan Merry, Johnaya Jones, Gemma Merritt, Craig ‘Chook’ Pickett, and Nerolie Blurton. Yamaji Art.

How making a film exploring Indigenous stories of the night sky enriched my perspective as a scientist

A new 3D film follows two children as they discover the astrophysical story of the universe and Yamaji stories of the sky and land. Making it was an extraordinary cross-cultural experience.

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