Applications for PULSE@Parkes sessions for Oct 2018 – March 2019 now open
September 7, 2018
Applications are now open for schools who wish to apply for a PULSE@Parkes observing session. We have slots available from October 2018 through March 2019. Students will control the 64m […]
Applications now open for 2018/19 CASS Undergraduate Vacation Scholarships
July 13, 2018
Get hands-on research experience Access CSIRO’s world-class facilities Apply for a CSIRO Vacation Scholarship today! Our Undergraduate Vacation Scholarships are run over the Australian summer holidays and offer high achieving […]
Astronomers observe the magnetic field of the remains of Supernova 1987A
July 2, 2018
For the first time, astronomers have directly observed the magnetism in one of astronomy’s most studied objects: the remains of Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), a dying star that appeared in […]
Discovery in the sky with nanodiamonds
June 11, 2018
A faint and mysterious stream of microwaves emanating from star systems far out in the Milky Way could be caused by tiny diamonds. New research led by researchers at Cardiff […]
Telescope’s ‘bionic ear’ hears more of the Universe
May 15, 2018
New technology installed on CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope today will let astronomers ‘hear’ a wider range of radio waves from objects in space, opening the way to new science. The […]
First publication from MeerKAT a significant milestone
April 6, 2018
South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope has been used to observe a magnetar that awoke in 2017 from a 3-year slumber, and the results have been published in the first science […]
New PULSE@Parkes observing slots now open for schools
March 7, 2018
Observing sessions for our PULSE@Parkes free education program are now open to applications from high schools. We have sessions available from April to September 2018. More information.
Signs of earliest stars seen from Australia
March 3, 2018
Using a small radio telescope at our Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia, US astronomers have detected a signal from the first stars to have emerged in the early […]
Telecommunications networks: helping scientists peer into deep space
February 4, 2018
Researchers using the ATNF’s Compact Array and Mopra radio telescopes have demonstrated that a stable frequency reference can be reliably transmitted more than 300 kilometres over a standard fibre optic […]
Astronomers peer into the lair of a mysterious cosmic radio burster
January 11, 2018
Two CSIRO scientists working in an international team have helped show that a mysterious source of cosmic radio bursts lies in an extreme environment, perhaps in close proximity to a […]
Neutron-star merger creates new mysteries
December 21, 2017
The neutron-star merger announced in October 2017 has solved one mystery – where gold comes from – but has also raised other questions, an international team reports today in the […]
It’s been 50 years since the discovery of pulsars
December 8, 2017
2017 marks 50 years since pulsars were discovered. Our Parkes radio telescope has found more than half of those now known. More information.