Galaxies sail on a tranquil sea, cosmic flash shows

November 18, 2016

A brilliant flash of radio waves from the distant universe has given a unique glimpse of the gas that lies between galaxies. The flash was captured and analysed by a […]

Radio National Background Briefing program

November 18, 2016

Dear Colleagues This weekend there will be an ABC radio story about staff wellbeing in astronomy, for which a number of astronomers have been interviewed about CASS. Dave Williams, our […]

Welcoming Dr Douglas Bock as our new Director of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science

November 10, 2016

Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that, following an international search, Dr Douglas Bock has been appointed Director of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, and Director of the Australia […]

Search for ET underway with Parkes radio telescope

November 10, 2016

Breakthrough Listen, the 10-year, $100-million astronomical search for intelligent life beyond Earth launched in 2015 by Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking has announced its first observations using CSIRO’s […]

First VLBI with two phased-array feeds

November 7, 2016

In a world first, CSIRO has shown that high-resolution observations, a technique called ‘very long baseline interferometry’ VLBI, can be made using two phased-array feeds (PAFs). The CSIRO-designed PAFs are […]