National award recognises engineering excellence of ASKAP PAF
November 21, 2013
CSIRO’s innovative new PAF receiver system has taken home a national Engineers Australia Engineering Excellence Award at a ceremony in Canberra last night. The Australian Engineering Excellence Awards recognise world-class […]
CASS opens new office in Perth, WA
November 20, 2013
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science is expanding its ‘footprint’ through a new presence in Perth, Western Australia (WA), complementing its existing ASKAP and SKA project support facilities at Geraldton, home […]
Supercomputer launches toward Big Data
November 15, 2013
Today marks the official operational launch of the iVEC Pawsey Centre – Australia’s newest supercomputer facility in Perth, Western Australia. Supercomputing resources at iVEC’s Pawsey Centre will be available for […]
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 […]
CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive: Requirements and Use Cases: document release
November 4, 2013
Planning is underway for a core computing component of ASKAP – the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (CASDA). CASDA will store, manage and share science-ready ASKAP data products. A draft […]
CASS and industry develop specialised PAF casings for ASKAP
October 28, 2013
CSIRO’s ASKAP telescope is an internationally significant project using cutting-edge Australian technologies to demonstrate the innovative capacity of Australian science and industry. The ASKAP team has been working with local […]
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 […]
ASKAP spies spectral line for first time
October 17, 2013
ASKAP has made its first ever detection of a spectral line, using three ASKAP antennas at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia. The observation was performed remotely by […]
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 […]
Feedback sought on ASKAP Early Science Program
September 26, 2013
Feedback is now being sought from the astronomy community on ASKAP Early Science, a program of observations designed to explore new scientific parameter-space with ASKAP before the construction of the […]