The slowest rotating ‘cosmic lighthouse’ yet discovered
January 22, 2025
Distant neutron stars typically spin a full 360 degrees within seconds. However, a new type of ‘radio transient object’ – so called as they are detected in radio waves – has […]
ASKAP’s Digital Twin
March 1, 2021
Digital twins are virtual replicas of small and large-scale physical objects, buildings, cities, regions and systems, and often incorporate and visualise large amounts of information gathered or streamed in real-time […]
ASKAP team wins 2020 Newcomb Cleveland Prize
February 2, 2021
An ASKAP team led by CSIRO astronomer, Dr Keith Bannister has received the 2020 Newcomb Cleveland Prize, presented by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Each year since […]
ASKAP guide
February 1, 2021
As ASKAP continues its countdown to full-scale survey operations, exciting discoveries are already emerging from the latest observations. Shortly after the full release of images from the Rapid ASKAP Continuum […]
50 million light-year long gas filament discovered, confirming model of the evolution of the Universe
December 17, 2020
New research published today in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics describes the discovery of the longest gas filament yet seen. At 50 million light years long, this thread of hot […]
ASKAP detects first solar-like radio burst from Proxima Cen, indicative of coronal mass ejection activity
December 16, 2020
New research published in The Astrophysical Journal on 9 December detailed multiwavelength observations of a powerful flare and associated radio bursts from Proxima Centauri, the nearest star and exoplanet host […]
ASKAP’s first all-sky survey
November 29, 2020
When ASKAP was first designed over a decade ago, its goal was to conduct large-scale surveys as quickly as possible. Today, we realised that goal with the publication of ASKAP’s […]
Zooming in on FRBs
June 11, 2020
New research published in ApJL today describes the global properties of the first sample of host galaxies of apparently non-repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) localized by ASKAP. This study is […]
Astronomers detect missing matter by using ASKAP to localise fast radio bursts
May 28, 2020
A research paper published in the journal Nature today describes how ASKAP’s ability to localise fast radio bursts was key to finding the “missing” baryonic matter that has puzzled astronomers […]
150 galaxies in a single view
May 15, 2020
The first set of science images and cubes for the WALLABY pilot survey have been released onto the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive CASDA, marking significant progress towards the 6th […]
The countdown to survey science with ASKAP reaches its half-way point
May 1, 2020
Stage 5: Image of a complex field Although 2020 has been a challenging year in many ways, the countdown to survey science with ASKAP continues. With additional precautions and procedures […]
ASKAP casts first big radio ‘net’ for gravitational-wave suspects
April 21, 2020
ASKAP has made its first large-scale follow-up of a gravitational-wave event – the merger of a neutron star and a black hole – looking for a radio source generated by […]