Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy

Opening the doors to the Universe

At CIRA, we engineer and operate some of the world’s most advanced radio astronomy technologies. We built and lead the Murchison Widefield Array project, a low-frequency radio telescope in remote Western Australia. Our engineering quietly powers SKA-Low at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory.

Our Science team conducts research with data from our telescopes and from others around the world, in areas such as Extragalactic Science, Accretion Physics and Slow Transients, the Epoch of Reionisation, and Pulsars / Fast Transients.

Opening the doors to the Universe

At CIRA, we engineer and operate some of the world’s most advanced radio astronomy technologies. We built and lead the Murchison Widefield Array project, a low-frequency radio telescope in remote Western Australia. Our engineering quietly powers SKA-Low at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory.

Our Science team conducts research with data from our telescopes and from others around the world, in areas such as extragalactic radio science, accretion physics and slow transients, the epoch of reionisation, and pulsars/fast transients.

Opening the doors to the Universe

At CIRA, we engineer and operate some of the world’s most advanced radio astronomy technologies. We built and lead the Murchison Widefield Array project, a low-frequency radio telescope in remote Western Australia. Our engineering quietly powers SKA-Low at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory.

Our Science team conducts research with data from our telescopes and from others around the world, in areas such as extragalactic radio science, accretion physics and slow transients, the epoch of reionisation, and pulsars/fast transients.