Telescope bigger than Earth nets international award

October 13, 2005

On 16 October a team including ATNF scientist Dr David Jauncey will receive a prestigious international award for creating a telescope bigger than the Earth. More information.

Cheap Aussie telescope captures world’s biggest solar flare

October 3, 2005

Using a “simple” 20 MHz interferometer, ATNF staff have made unique measurements of the 5 November 2003 solar flare. More information.

Aussie astronomers prepare for smash hit

June 28, 2005

Astronomers at Australia’s national radio and optical observatories will watch as a probe released from a spacecraft slams into a comet about 133 million km away at a speed of […]

Double pulsar puts Einstein to the test

June 1, 2005

Einstein has kept his crown. His general theory of relativity, published in 1916, has stood up to the toughest tests astronomers have so far devised – tests based on a […]

Ron Ekers elected a Fellow of the Royal Society

May 31, 2005

Professor R D (Ron) Ekers, Foundation Director of CSIROÂ’s Australia Telescope National Facility and an ARC Federation Fellow, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in the UK […]

Hassled galaxy “thriving on chaos”

March 11, 2005

Powerful but unknown forces are at work in a small companion galaxy of the Milky Way, astronomers say in todayÂ’s issue of the journal Science. Something is keeping the structure […]

Monster star blast ‘brighter than full Moon’

February 19, 2005

Radio telescopes of CSIRO and the University of Sydney, and others in Europe, India and the USA, have been watching the aftermath of one of the most stupendous cosmic explosions […]

CSIRO telescopes help rescue Titan experiment

February 10, 2005

CSIRO’s radio telescopes and others in Australia, China, Japan and the USA have revealed how the wind speeds on Saturn’s moon Titan vary with altitude—and have turned a disappointment into […]

Magnetic mystery solved

January 31, 2005

Magnetars – stars with magnetic fields a thousand million million times stronger than Earth’s – are formed when some of the biggest stars in the cosmos explode, says a team […]

Australian telescopes ready for historic space mission

January 17, 2005

12 January 2005 Radio telescopes of CSIRO and the University of Tasmania stand ready to follow the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe as it plummets through the clouds of Saturn’s […]

ATNF Telescopes to Take Part in Huygens Space-Probe Experiment

January 11, 2005

On 14 January 2005, radio telescopes of CSIRO and other Australian institutions will help pinpoint the location of the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe as it plunges through the clouds […]

Double pulsar discovery makes Science’s ‘top ten’ of 2004

December 23, 2004

The discovery of the first-known double pulsar system, made with CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope, has been named by the journal ‘Science’ as one of the top ten breakthroughs of 2004. […]