Perth supercomputer images aftermath of star’s violent death in first big test

Perth supercomputer images aftermath of star’s violent death in first big test

A WA supercomputer with a very West Australian name has passed a major “stress test” with flying colours.

  • byCameron Myles

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Slackers have a friend in science
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Slackers have a friend in science

While protocols at Milsons Point throw up red flags.

Earth records shortest day,putting clocks (slightly) out of time

Earth records shortest day,putting clocks (slightly) out of time

The speed of the Earth’s rotation has left scientists scratching their heads about the cause.

  • bySarah Knapton
My dad sparked my love of space. I wish he saw the James Webb photos

My dad sparked my love of space. I wish he saw the James Webb photos

We’re all lucky children this month,seeing the first images from a telescope that cost billions of dollars and will change our understanding of everything.

  • byKimberley Starr
Jinx testing in progress
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Jinx testing in progress

41 years until we all live long and prosper.

James Webb sees billions of years into the past. How could it shape the future?
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James Webb sees billions of years into the past. How could it shape the future?

The successor to the Hubble telescope could answer key questions like whether aliens exist and how the universe began. How does Webb work and what does it mean?

  • bySherryn Groch
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Dying stars and dancing galaxies revealed in spectacular new Webb telescope images

Dying stars and dancing galaxies revealed in spectacular new Webb telescope images

NASA has unveiled a new set of images from its powerful James Webb Space Telescope.

  • bySeth Borenstein
‘Exquisite’:Marvel of modern engineering reveals our cosmic origins
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Space

‘Exquisite’:Marvel of modern engineering reveals our cosmic origins

Never before have we managed to capture this first twinkle,when a young universe stepped out of its dark ages with the ignition of the first stars.

  • bySabine Bellstedt
Ten years on from the God particle,we may have found a fifth force of nature
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Ten years on from the God particle,we may have found a fifth force of nature

It took four decades to find. Homer Simpson predicted it. And,depending on who you ask,it could one day destroy the universe. What’s the Higgs boson? And what is left to discover?

  • bySherryn Groch
A mystery rocket crashed into the moon – and no one (on Earth) is owning up

A mystery rocket crashed into the moon – and no one (on Earth) is owning up

Some are speculating China could be behind the rocket but scientists aren’t sure.

  • byJamie Johnson
Sydney’s shortest day is here,but its coldest is yet to come

Sydney’s shortest day is here,but its coldest is yet to come

Sydneysiders will experience the shortest day of the year on Tuesday,with about nine hours and 53 minutes of daylight marking the winter solstice.

  • byPallavi Singhal