The Parkes Visitors Discovery Centre

August 19, 2015

Located just next to CSIRO’s 64-m Parkes telescope is our fabulous Visitors Discovery Centre and Dish Cafe. If you can’t visit in person, you may want to explore the Parkes […]

ASKAP Phased-Array Feed installation

August 18, 2015

by the ASKAP team (CASS) Another MkII Phased-Array Feed (PAF) is being installed on an ASKAP antenna. This is number four out of 36; another eight PAFs are being assembled […]

Quantum Astronomy and Stellar Imaging 2015

August 17, 2015

by Barnaby Norris (Sydney Uni) The profound impact of the Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer (pictured above) is very much alive today: it is regarded as the foundational experiment from which […]

Lego ASKAP antennas

August 16, 2015

A great find in the Gravity Discovery Centre at Gingin Observatory in Western Australia (WA). This was just one of many great displays and interactive science experiments. Further north in […]

The Dragonfly Galaxy: ATCA unravels the role of cold gas in a merging hyper-luminous radio galaxy at z=2

August 15, 2015

by Bjorn Emonts (Centro de Astrobiologia) The Dragonfly Galaxy (MRC 0152-209) is the most infrared-luminous radio galaxy known in the southern hemisphere. It is forming new stars at an extreme […]

The Spectral Revolution has Begun

August 14, 2015

by Joe Callingham (Sydney Uni) Callingham et al. (2015) present broadband observations and spectral modeling of PKS B0008-421 and identify it as an extreme gigahertz-peaked spectrum (GPS) source. PKS B0008-421 […]

2015 Radio Astronomy School

August 13, 2015

by Ian Heywood (CASS) CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) is holding the 2015 Radio Astronomy School at the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) in Narrabri, NSW, from Monday 28th […]

ATNF Colloquium – SkyMapper’s Southern Sky Survey

August 12, 2015

by Christian Wolf (RSAA Mt Stromlo) I present the status on future prospects of the public survey as well as open time activties to showcase what SkyMapper can do for […]

PhD student Juliana Saponara

August 11, 2015

by Paula Benaglia (La Plata, Argentina) Five investigators from La Plata, Argentina, use a stand-up talk on stage to bring science to the public. One of them is PhD student […]

Prof. Joel Weisberg visiting ATNF

August 10, 2015

Prof. Joel Weisberg from Carleton College in the US is a regular and very welcome visitor to CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) where he and his students work with […]

Large-scale structure as traced by HIPASS

August 9, 2015

The distribution of ~5000 galaxies detected in the HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS) by Meyer et al. (2004) . The whole HIPASS survey area (DEC

The Topsy-Turvy Galaxy NGC 1313

August 8, 2015

by Bärbel Koribalski (CASS) The starburst galaxy NGC 1313 as seen in the optical, ultraviolet and neutral hydrogen gas, obtained from the Digitised Sky Survey (DSS), the GALEX space telescope […]