CSIRO To Help Ease NASA’s ”Traffic Jam”

September 6, 2002

When six spacecraft besiege Mars in early 2004, CSIRO will help NASA catch as much data from them as possible. The three tracking stations of NASA’s Deep Space Network – […]

Gamma-Ray Burst Mystery Solved: Exploding Stars the Culprit

May 16, 2002

Australian telescopes have helped provide the clinching evidence that gamma-ray bursts – the biggest bangs in the Universe – are produced when massive stars explode and their cores collapse to […]

Equipment Built At “The Dish” Goes To China

May 15, 2002

On Monday 20 May staff at CSIRO’s Parkes Observatory ­ home of “the Dish” ­ will pack a special delivery for the Urumqi Astronomical Observatory in far western China. It’s […]

Astronomers find star stretched to bursting point

February 21, 2002

Astronomers have found a weird double-star system – a super-fast spinning pulsar whose gravity has deformed its companion star into a giant red teardrop. The discovery was made by astronomers […]

CSIRO-TRW Alliance Explores Speedy Semiconductors

January 22, 2002

CSIRO and U.S. telecommunications giant TRW have formed a strategic alliance to develop high-performance gallium arsenide and indium phosphide components for radio astronomy, advanced millimetre-wave sensors and telecommunications systems. More […]