Rocks around the clock: asteroids pound tiny star
February 20, 2014
Scientists using CSIRO’s Parkes telescope and another telescope in South Africa have found evidence that a tiny star called PSR J0738-4042 is being pounded by asteroids — large lumps of […]
Find black holes while you’re on the bus
December 19, 2013
‘Radio Galaxy Zoo’ is a citizen-science project that lets anyone become a cosmic explorer. It uses data from the Australia Telescope Compact Array. More information.
Black hole jets pack a powerful punch
November 14, 2013
High-speed ‘jets’ spat out by black holes pack a lot of power because they contain heavy atoms, astronomers have found. More information.
Pill-popping galaxy hooked on gas
November 7, 2013
Our Galaxy may have been swallowing “pills” — clouds of gas with a magnetic wrapper — to keep making stars for the past eight billion years. More information.
Lead role for CSIRO in SKA R&D
November 5, 2013
CSIRO will play a lead role in the next stage of the development of the world’s largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), to be located in Australia and […]
Gravitational waves “know” how black holes grow
October 18, 2013
Supermassive black holes: every large galaxy’s got one. But how did they grow so big? A paper in today’s issue of the journal Science pits the front-running ideas about the […]
Astronomers find ‘missing link’ pulsar
September 26, 2013
An international team of astronomers has used X-ray telescopes in space and ground-based telescopes, including two of CSIRO’s, to identify a pulsar that switches between emitting X-rays and emitting radio […]
Magnetic field may shape “blooming” star
September 16, 2013
A star is “blooming” in the southern sky — and astronomers using a CSIRO telescope are a step closer to knowing why. More information.
CSIRO telescope marks 25 years of success
August 28, 2013
One of the world’s most successful astronomy observatories, CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array near Narrabri, NSW, turns 25 years of age on 2 September. More information.
Pulsars make a GPS for the cosmos
August 20, 2013
CSIRO scientists have written software that could guide spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, show that the planet Nibiru doesn’t exist … and prove that the Earth goes around the Sun. More […]
Deep-space flashes light up a new face of Nature
July 17, 2013
CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope has detected brief flashes of radio emission from the distant Universe. Their origin is unknown. More information.
Astronomers spy on galaxies in the raw
June 24, 2013
The Australia Telescope Compact Array has been used to study cold molecular hydrogen gas — the raw material for making stars — in galaxies that formed when the Universe was […]