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 […]

The Three-mm Ultimate Mopra Milky Way Survey (ThrUMMS)

September 23, 2025

Barnes et al. have just published Data Release 6 of The Three-mm Ultimate Mopra Milky Way Survey (ThrUMMS). The Data Release consists of complete data cubes and various moments of […]

ATNF Colloquium — Aline Vidotto (Observatory of Leiden University, Netherlands)

September 22, 2025

Exo-space weather: The impact of stellar activity and outflows on exoplanets Abstract:  Activity of cool dwarf stars can reveal itself in the form of high-energy radiation (eg, enhanced X-ray coronal […]

ATNF Colloquium — Chenoa Tremblay (SETI / Breakthrough)

September 19, 2025

Large-Scale Technosignatures Searches and the Stuff that Makes it Work Abstract: The search for technological life beyond Earth is a large-scale search for unidentified spectral-temporal signatures. So far, most searches for […]

SKA-Low’s 10,000th antenna

September 18, 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 AA0.5 array, each made up of 256 log-dipole […]

ATNF Colloquium — Iris de Ruiter (University of Sydney)

September 17, 2025

The Variables and Slow Transients Extragalactic survey: exploring radio transients with ASKAP  Abstract:  The Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) survey on the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is transforming our […]