Welcome Gemma Anderson

October 10, 2025

Gemma Anderson recently joined CSIRO Space & Astronomy at Kensington as a Research Scientist to work on the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) rapid response mode. She has spent the […]

SKAO Annual Report 2024

October 9, 2025

The SKA Observatory’s 2024 Annual Report is now available, covering a memorable year with the start of deployment of antennas on the SKA telescope sites in Australia and South Africa. […]

ATNF Colloquium — Natasha Bosanac (University of Colorado Boulder)

October 8, 2025

Advancing Spacecraft Trajectory Design, Analysis, and Prediction within Multi-Body Systems  Abstract: Our future in space involves miniaturized satellites for low-cost and rapid access to space, autonomously navigating spacecraft, on-orbit servicing […]

BIGCAT Science Commissioning

October 7, 2025

BIGCAT is the new GPU-based correlator for ATCA. After installation and engineering commissioning finished, science commissioning began in August, with a team of astronomers putting the telescope through its paces. As […]

BIGCAT Science Commissioning

October 3, 2025

BIGCAT is the new GPU-based correlator for ATCA. After installation and engineering commissioning finished, science commissioning began in August, with a team of astronomers putting the telescope through its paces. […]

Issue 18 of Contact

October 2, 2025

Issue 18 of Contact, the SKAO magazine, has just been published. In addition to progress reports on construction activities for SKA_Low and SKA-Mid, this issue considers the impact that SKA […]

ATNF Colloquium — Taïssa Danilovich (Monash)

October 1, 2025

The effect of evolved star binaries on circumstellar astrochemistry and dust formation Abstract: Low- and intermediate-mass stars disgorge their outer layers during the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) phase, one of […]

PHISCC 2025

September 30, 2025

The 15th workshop of the Pathfinder HI Survey Coordination Committee (PHISCC) was held last week in Cagliari, Sardinia, with good representation from members of the ASKAP spectral-line survey teams and […]

International Astronautical Congress 2025 Sydney

September 29, 2025

This week the annual International Astronautical Congress (IAC) is being held in Sydney, organised by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF). Founded in 1951, the International Astronautical Federation is the world’s […]

ATNF Colloquium — Ravi Subrahmanyan (CSIRO)

September 26, 2025

Radio discovery of Cosmic Dawn Abstract:  As First Light from the First Stars transforms the universe from Dark Ages into Cosmic Dawn, the thermal history may be traced in redshifted […]

Possible Super-Eddington Accretion in a Radio-loud Quasar at z = 6.13

September 25, 2025

Ighina et al. present radio and X-ray observations of the recently discovered high-redshift (z=6.13) radio-powerful quasar RACS J032021.44-352104.1, using the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, the Australia Telescope Compact Array, […]

ATNF Colloquium — Emma Carli (Swinburne University)

September 24, 2025

Are neutron stars outside our galaxy any different? Abstract: The TRAPUM  (TRAnsients and PUlsars with MeerKAT) collaboration has so far doubled the extragalactic radio pulsar population with a survey of nearby […]