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In the 1950s, Albert Namatjira’s iconic watercolor art was often sold on the streets of Alice Springs for just a few shillings. Key points: Demand for Albert Namatjira’s artwork has soared, with one work worth over $120,000 A prominent art owner said people realized how important an Arrente male artist was A member of the Namatjira family said that his legacy has inspired many others to follow in the artist’s footsteps Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article may contain images of people who have died. Over the years and after his death in 1959, his paintings of the vast Central Australian landscape became highly sought after, with collectors around the world clamoring to own a work. Now there is renewed interest in the artist Arrernte and the father of the Hermannsburg School with his record-setting work. Glen Helen Gorge in Namatjira on paper sold for more than $120,000 when it went up for auction in Melbourne earlier this year. In ...

A schematic representation of a look into cosmic history provided by the bright glow of a distant quasar. Observing with a telescope (bottom left) allows us to gain information about the so-called reionization epoch (top right “bubble”) that followed the Big Bang phase (top right). Credit: Carnegie Institution for Science / MPIA (annotated) Astronomers determined the time when all of the neutral hydrogen gas between galaxies was produced by Big Bang The Big Bang is the leading cosmological model that explains how the universe as we know it began approximately 13.8 billion years ago. ” data-gt-translate-attributes=”[{” attribute=””>Big Bang became fully ionized. A group of astronomers has robustly timed the end of the epoch of reionization of the neutral hydrogen gas to approximately 1.1 billion years after the Big Bang. Reionization began when the first generation of stars formed after the cosmic “dark ages,” a long period when the Universe w...