Eureka! Emu in the Sky wins prize
August 22, 2007
Congratulations to Barnaby Norris who has won third prize in the 2007 New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography. Barnaby has worked with CSIRO for several years on photography and […]
“Accidental revolutionaries” net US$500,000 cosmology prize
July 18, 2007
Dr Brian Boyle, Director of CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility, is one of a group of scientists who will share the 2007 Gruber Cosmology Prize, worth US$500,000. This year’s Prize […]
Broadband networks transform radio astronomy
April 19, 2007
Astronomers from CSIRO, the Swinburne University of Technology and the University of Tasmania have made the first broadband hook-up between Australian radio telescopes, doing in just hours an experiment that […]
ATNF staff appointed as CSIRO Fellows
February 27, 2007
ATNF’s Professor Ron Ekers and Dr Dick Manchester were two of seven of CSIRO’s leading scientists that were made CSIRO Fellows at a ceremony in Canberra today. More information.
Apollo Moon-landing award for telescope engineer
January 19, 2007
A former Officer-in-Charge at the Parkes telescope will receive an award in Houston, Texas, next week for his role in the 1969 Moon landing. Long-time Parkes resident David Cooke was […]
Parkes gears up for another 45 years
November 29, 2006
CSIROÂ’s Parkes telescope, which turned 45 in October, is getting a new lease on life this week with the replacement of some of its drive gears. The new gears replace […]
ATNF astronomer wins 2006 Malcolm McIntosh Prize
October 16, 2006
Dr Naomi McClure-Griffiths of the ATNF has won the 2006 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year. The award is one of the five Prime Minister’s Prizes for […]
Australia, South Africa, short-listed for giant telescope
September 28, 2006
Australia and South Africa have been short-listed as the countries to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a giant next-generation radio telescope being developed by scientists in 17 countries. The […]
General relativity survives gruelling pulsar test
September 15, 2006
Astronomers have used a pair of pulsars orbiting each other, found with CSIROÂ’s Parkes telescope in 2003, to show that EinsteinÂ’s theory of general relativity is correct to within 0.05% […]
Parkes finds unexpected ‘heartbeats’ in star
August 24, 2006
A US-Australian research team found that a “magnetar” – a kind of star with the strongest magnetic fields known in the Universe – is giving off extraordinary radio pulses, which […]
ATNF Director elected a Fellow of the Academy of Science
March 24, 2006
ATNF Director Professor Brian Boyle has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. He is one of this year’s 18 new Fellows – researchers from Australian universities, […]
Parkes telescope finds new kind of cosmic object
February 16, 2006
A team of astronomers from the UK, USA, Australia, Italy and Canada using the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope in eastern Australia has found a new kind of cosmic object: small, […]