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 […]

CSIRO calls for Expressions of Interest in purchasing time on its radio astronomy facilities

November 17, 2016

CSIRO is seeking Expressions of Interest (EoI) from Australian and international research institutes or from other organisations that see genuine potential in the purchase of time on one or more […]

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 […]