Gingin telescope helps make first ever observation of a neutron star collision

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“Holy sh*t.”

And with these two words, in an email sent to scientists around the world, a new era of astronomy was begun.

The colourful outburst was prompted by the first observation of a neutron star collision, which is being hailed as more significant than the discovery of gravitational waves, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics.

And a telescope in Gingin, 70km north of Perth, played a pivotal role.