IAU: Voting for new Commissions – Deadline 31 December 2014
December 4, 2014
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is carrying out a process to reform the Commissions. All current Commissions will cease and, following a selection process, new Commissions will begin at the […]
Widefield continuum and polarisation capabilities demonstrated with BETA
December 4, 2014
The ASKAP commissioning and early science team has successfully demonstrated widefield continuum imaging with the ASKAP phased array feed (PAF) receivers installed on the Boolardy Engineering Test Array (BETA). A […]
Australian and Korean telescopes connected for detailed view of the Universe
December 3, 2014
CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) is extending into exciting new territory to provide some of the very highest resolutions achievable on Earth by combining with other telescopes at high […]
ASKAP wins national innovation award
November 27, 2014
CSIRO’s Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope has taken home the overall prize in the Australian Innovation Challenge Awards, with judges recognising the telescope as “one of those advances that keeps […]
Industry collaboration leading to big things
November 20, 2014
NB: the following information may not be up-to-date but is included for historical interest. 14 November 2014 Through the ASKAP project, CSIRO is working with Puzzle Precision, a a quality, […]
ASKAP streams in to Supercomputing 2014
November 20, 2014
This week, delegates of the Supercomputing 2014 (SC14) conference in New Orleans had a chance to visit the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) and chat with ASKAP team members via a […]
Call for Proposals for 2015APR semester
November 12, 2014
Proposals for observing time are now invited for the 2015APR semester for the: * Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) * Parkes 64-m telescope * Mopra 22-m telescope * Tidbinbilla 70-m […]
ASKAP user community meets to workshop ideas
October 24, 2014
Members of the ASKAP Science Survey Teams and other potential ASKAP users met this week at the Marsfield headquarters of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science in a one-day workshop to […]
“The sun never sets on the SKA”
October 20, 2014
In what has been called “the largest ever gathering of people working on the international SKA project”, some 300 engineers and scientists recently gathered in Fremantle, WA, to progress the […]
Students astonished by stuttering star
October 7, 2014
Secondary school students in Australia have helped reveal weird, jittery behaviour in a pulsar called PSR J1717-4054. The results of their observations and of follow-up studies are published online in […]
Alcohol test may hold key to life
October 7, 2014
Alcohol molecules found in a distant galaxy may help to show if a ‘fundamental constant’ of nature is really constant — and if we could only have existed at this […]
New image demonstrates rapid survey capability of ASKAP
October 7, 2014
An image has been generated with the Boolardy Engineering Test Array (BETA) that covers 50 square degrees of the sky, revealing approximately 2000 sources and demonstrating the rapid survey capability […]