Press Release – University of Western Australia 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 dEtudes … 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.