SKA-Low’s 10,000th antenna
September 16, 2025
The SKA Observatory has reached its first construction milestone, with the first Array Assembly, AA0.5, of the SKA-Low telescope officially delivered. The four-station array, each made up 256 log-dipole antennas, […]
Welcome Jonghwan Rhee
September 15, 2025
Jonghwan Rhee recently joined CSIRO Space and Astronomy at Kensington as a Research Scientist to support ASKAP spectral line surveys. He received his PhD in Astronomy from the Australian National […]
Fleurs radio observatory
September 12, 2025
The new Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport will open next year. The M12 motorway, currently nearing completion, will provide direct access to the Airport from existing motorways. The motorway […]
R U OK? Day
September 11, 2025
R U OK? is an Australian suicide prevention charity and public health promotion that encourages people to stay connected and have conversations that can help others through difficult times. The […]
ATNF Colloquium — Jane Kaczmarek (SKAO)
September 10, 2025
SKA Science timeline Abstract: As the SKA timeline towards science progresses, the SKAO aims to engage with the user community to define early access to the SKA telescopes through Science Verification […]
Fleurs radio observatory
September 9, 2025
The M12 motorway, currently nearing completion, will provide direct access to new Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport, which will open next year. The motorway runs through what was the […]
Fleurs radio observatory
September 8, 2025
The new Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport will open next year. A new motorway, the M12, will provide direct access to the Airport from existing motorways. The M12 motorway […]
“Red sky at night…”
September 5, 2025
There is an old saying “Red sky at night, sailor’s (or shepherd’s) delight/Red sky at morning, sailor’s warning”. The saying has persisted as it contains some truth — a red […]
The mystery of a new, perfectly shaped supernova remnant
September 4, 2025
Filipovic et al. present the serendipitous radio-continuum discovery of a likely Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) G305.4–2.2. This object displays a remarkable circular symmetry in shape, making it one of the […]
An EMU Catalogue of DRAGNs
September 3, 2025
Norris et al. present a catalogue of 3557 Double Radio sources associated with Active Galactic Nuclei (DRAGNs) from the First Pilot Survey of the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU), observed […]
An EMU Catalogue of DRAGNs
September 2, 2025
Norris et al. present a catalogue of 3557 Double Radio sources associated with Active Galactic Nuclei (DRAGNs) from the First Pilot Survey of the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU), observed […]
Welcome Jishnu Thekkeppattu
September 1, 2025
Jishnu Thekkeppattu recently joined CSIRO Space and Astronomy at Marsfield as a CERC Fellow. Jishnu earned his PhD in experimental low frequency cosmology from Curtin University. His thesis work was […]
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