The Search for Invisible Stars: The Most Elusive Objects in The Galaxy

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Talks on Tuesdays is a live event series bringing big ideas, real experts, and curious minds together - at your favourite local venues. Think thought-provoking lectures, audience questions, and post-talk mingling over drinks and dinner.

This isn’t a uni lecture. It’s a social, intelligent night out.Come alone or with friends, leave with something to talk about.

Event Schedule:

6.30pm Arrival & Doors Open

7pm Lecture Starts

7.45pm Q&A

8pm Talk Concludes

8.30pm Event Closes.

*Please arrive close to 6.30pm

A La Carte menu and full bar available throughout the night - pay as you go.

Your Topic:The Search for Invisible Stars: When we look out into the night sky, we see a dark, static canvas filled with flickering white specks. But if we could see the universe in radio waves, we would witness a violently dynamic cosmos full of invisible explosions, magnetic storms, and dying stars crashing into each other. For decades, catching these fleeting, energetic events was like looking for a needle in a cosmic haystack; the Universe is vast, and our field of vision was far too narrow.Today, we are overcoming that obstacle by building massive, next-generation instruments right here in Australia. Telescopes like the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) act as ultra-wide-angle lenses, collecting terabytes of data per second to map the southern skies. By searching for a specific signature — the polarization of radio light — my research filters out millions of more common astronomical signals to hunt down…