Opinion

Tech Talk | Looking to the stars for answers to detect bushfires within minutes of them forming

By Mathew Dickerson
Updated March 26 2021 - 8:34am, first published March 25 2021 - 4:00pm
Technology that helps astronomers find supernovae in space could detect fires as they form.
Technology that helps astronomers find supernovae in space could detect fires as they form.

Just over a year ago we were coming out of one of the worst bushfire seasons on record - 18.6 million hectares burnt out across the nation; 34 lives lost; 2,600 homes; 1 billion animals.