Monday, 24 May 2021, 4:20 pm
The University of Western Australia and the French
Government are working together with industry and
researchers to improve monitoring of space for exploding
stars billions of light years away.
UWA is working
with the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, the French
Government’s space agency, to install a network of
receiver stations across northern Australia. The stations
will receive alerts from the Space
Variable Objects Monitor satellite in high orbit above
Earth. The satellite is sensitive to gamma ray bursts which
signal massive stars exploding.
Within seconds an
alert will be sent to telescopes, including the UWA Zadko