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Attendees at the 2025 PHISCC meeting in Sardinia.

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 […]

Poster advertising the 2025 International Astronautical Congress, held in 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 […]

The GINAN radiometer, deployed on an SKA_Low station mesh, in an experiment to detect the redshifted neutral hydrogen line emission from the Cosmic Dawn. (Image credit: Ravi Subrahmanyan)

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 […]

Long Baseline Array images of the field containing the high-redshift radio quasar RACS J032021.44-352104.1. The quasar is detected at 2.3 GHz, but not at 8.4 GHz.

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, […]

Astrometric and photometric map of the large and small Magellanic clouds from the Gaia mission, advertising Emma Carli's colloquium

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 […]

Colour-composite plots of the integrated intensity mosaics in galactic coordinates in the three iso-CO lines, using red for 12CO, green for 13CO, and blue for C18O. The wide variations in line ratios across the Galactic plane are evident from the varying colors in this image. (From Barnes et al. 2025)

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 […]

A diagram of a planetary magnetic field responding to the impact of a magnetised stellar wind, advertising Aline Vidotto's colloquium.

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 […]

Colloquium speaker Chenoa Tremblay standing with SETI processing hardware

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 […]

The SKA-Low team in front of a station of 256 antennas.

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 […]

Sky map of the extragalactic component of the ASKAP VAST surveyfor Iris de Ruiter's colloquium

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 […]

Aerial view of a cluster of six SKA-Low stations.

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 of 256 log-dipole […]

New ATNF Science staff member 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 […]


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