Vale Cyril Hazard
June 27, 2025
Dr Cyril Hazard passed away on the 14th of June 2025, aged 97. As a student at of the University of Manchester, Cyril worked with Sir Bernard Lovell and Robert […]
Receiver upgrade at CDSCC
June 26, 2025
DSS-43, the 70m antenna at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) is currently off-line while a new receiver is installed. DSS-43 is primarily used to transmit signals to, and […]
Receiver upgrade at CDSCC
June 25, 2025
DSS-43, the 70m antenna at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) is currently off-line while a new receiver is installed. DSS-43 is primarily used to transmit signals to, and […]
SKAO Science Meeting 2025
June 24, 2025
The 2025 SKAO General Science Meeting, A new era in astrophysics: Preparing for early science with the SKAO, was held from June 16th to 20th in Görlitz, Germany, and on-line. More […]
SKAO Science Meeting 2025
June 23, 2025
The 2025 SKAO General Science Meeting, A new era in astrophysics: Preparing for early science with the SKAO, was held from June 16th to 20th in Görlitz, Germany, and on-line. There […]
SKAO Science Meeting 2025
June 19, 2025
The 2025 SKAO General Science Meeting, A new era in astrophysics: Preparing for early science with the SKAO, is underway in Görlitz, Germany, and on-line. The first two days of plenary […]
ATNF Colloquium – Ajay Kumar (NCRA, Pune)
June 18, 2025
Probing Fast Radio Bursts Using Deep Learning and GMRT Abstract:Fast Radio bursts are bright dispersed radio pulses of cosmological origin. Currently, several hundred of them are known and published. The […]
SKAO Science Meeting 2025
June 17, 2025
The 2025 SKAO General Science Meeting, A new era in astrophysics: Preparing for early science with the SKAO, commenced yesterday in Görlitz, Germany, and on-line. The meeting will include three days […]
SKAO Science Meeting 2025
June 16, 2025
The 2025 SKAO General Science Meeting, A new era in astrophysics: Preparing for early science with the SKAO, is being held this week in Görlitz, Germany, and on-line. Taking place […]
The Spatial Distribution of FRBs within their Host Galaxies
June 13, 2025
Despite the detection of hundreds of fast radio bursts (FRBs) to date, their precise astrophysical origins remain uncertain. Observations have revealed them to be energetic, millisecond-duration radio transients, with high […]
To Infinity, and beyond!
June 12, 2025
Planetary nebulae (PNe) are shells of gas that are shed during the terminal phase for the majority of stars between 1 and 8 solar masses, when they transition from the […]
CSIRO radio astronomy in 1985
June 11, 2025
ATNF archivist, Lawrence Toomey, recently unearthed several copies of a 1985 booklet on Radio Astronomy, published as one of a series of 18 booklets about research conducted within CSIRO. Radio […]
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