Getting busy with real data
April 1, 2016
In preparation for the start of the ASKAP Early Science Program, the first ASKAP Community Busy Week was held this week at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA). More information.
LIGO makes waves; Australian telescopes follow up
March 8, 2016
Last month, physicists at LIGO made waves with the announcement that elusive gravitational waves – ripples in space time caused by a violent cosmic event taking place in the distant […]
Bye bye, BETA
March 4, 2016
In what is a bittersweet milestone for the ASKAP project, the Boolardy Engineering Test Array – or BETA, as it is known – has officially been decommissioned at the Murchison […]
Change in CASS Director
February 19, 2016
After three successful years leading CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Dr Lewis Ball’s term as Director of CASS will come to an end on 17 March. As CASS Director, Lewis […]
A bright start to 2016 for ASKAP’s renewables
February 19, 2016
The solar power station for CSIRO’s Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope has been powering ahead at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia throughout January. At the end of 2015, […]
Bonn-bound PAF pops by Parkes
February 19, 2016
ASKAP receiver technology is about to branch out beyond the MRO, having been recently deployed to the Parkes Observatory for testing. Through an agreement with the Max Planck Institute for […]
CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (CASDA): Version 1.1 release
February 12, 2016
We advise that version 1.1 of CASDA is now available. This includes several new features for science users. The main changes compared to version 1.0 (released Nov 2015) are: a) […]
A bright start to 2016 for ASKAP renewables
February 1, 2016
Progress on the solar power station for the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope has been powering ahead at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia throughout January. More information.
Further progress towards SKA intergovernmental organisation
February 1, 2016
Friday 29 January, Rome, Italy: The second meeting of the preparatory negotiations towards establishing SKA Organisation as an intergovernmental organisation (IGO) regulated by a treaty has just ended in Rome, […]
Media: Biases in the world of science
January 12, 2016
*Appeared in The Guardian, 9 January 2016* —– When the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, recently announced that his innovation plan would contribute $13m to support greater participation of girls and […]
* ATNF Daily Astronomy Picture *
January 6, 2016
Welcome to the “ATNF Daily Astronomy Picture” (ADAP), brought to you by staff and users of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF). Our aim is to present science and engineering […]
Eleven year cosmic search leads to black hole rethink
December 22, 2015
One hundred years since Einstein proposed gravitational waves as part of his general theory of relativity, an 11-year search performed with the Parkes telescope has shown that an expected background […]