‘Beyond what we’d hoped’: SKA-Low’s First Glimpse of the Universe

March 21, 2025

The SKA Observatory (SKAO) has released the first image from an early working version of the SKA-Low telescope, currently under construction on Wajarri Yamaji Country in Western Australia. Using just […]

A Long-Period Radio Transient Active for Over Three Decades

March 20, 2025

Several long-period radio transients have recently been discovered, with strongly polarised coherent radio pulses appearing on timescales between tens to thousands of seconds1,2. In some cases, the radio pulses have […]

Searching for Radio Pulses from Aql X-1 with FAST

March 19, 2025

Peng et al. present 12 observations of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar Aql X-1, conducted between August 2022 and October 2023 using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) at […]

The Discovery of a 41-Second Radio Pulsar PSR J0311+1402 with ASKAP

March 18, 2025

The recently discovered PSR J0311+1402 offers new insights into the evolving population of long-period radio transients (LPTs) and their connection to normal pulsars. Unlike typical pulsars, which spin in milliseconds to seconds, LPTs have much […]

A Partial Lunar Eclipse Over Australia

March 17, 2025

Last Friday night (March 14, 2025), a partial lunar eclipse briefly graced the skies over eastern Australia. While much of the world witnessed a stunning “Blood Moon,” Australians could only […]

An active repeating fast radio burst in a magnetised eruption environment

March 14, 2025

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio pulses of extragalactic origin with largely unknown progenitors. Some FRBs show mild variations in their magneto-ionic environment, possibly due to plasma turbulence or […]

Processing of GASKAP-Hi pilot survey data using a commercial supercomputer

March 13, 2025

In their study, Kemp et al. explore the use of commercial high-performance computing (HPC) for processing large-scale radio astronomy data, specifically from the GASKAP-Hi pilot surveys. They outline a four-step […]

ATNF Colloquium – Kana Morokuma

March 12, 2025

Probing Radio-Mode AGN Feedback in NGC 1316: ALMA CO Mapping at GMA Scales Kana Morokuma (University of Tokyo) Abstract:Active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback is essential for regulating the number density […]

FEASTS and Interferometry (IV): Mapping HI Emission in Edge-On Galaxies at Low Column Densities

March 11, 2025

Yang et al. present a statistical study of the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) gas extending into the circumgalactic medium perpendicular to the disk for 7 edge-on galaxies with inclinations above  85° from […]

ASKAP Observations of the Radio Shell in the Composite Supernova Remnant G310.6-1.6

March 10, 2025

Jing et al. report the observations of the radio shell of the supernova remnant (SNR) G310.6–1.6 at 943 MHz from the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) and the Polarization […]

First Detection of Radio Emission from the Intermediate Mass Black Hole in POX 52: Deep Multiband Observations with ATCA and VLA

March 7, 2025

Yuan et al. present the first multi-band centimeter detection of POX 52, a nearby dwarf galaxy believed to harbor a robust intermediate mass black hole (IMBH). We conducted the deep […]

Athena sends first lunar selfies

March 6, 2025

Athena, the lunar lander of Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission, successfully entered a circular orbit around the Moon on 3 March. Flight controllers expect it to complete 39 orbits before its […]