LIGO makes waves, Australia follows up

March 8, 2016

by Flo Yuen (CASS) 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 […]

Most of our universe is missing

March 7, 2016

by Lisa Harvey-Smith (CASS) On 24 February New Scientist hosted the event “Most of our universe is missing (and how Australia will find it)”. The event took place at the […]

ATNF data reduction workshop 2-6 May 2016

March 4, 2016

by Paolo Serra (CASS) Have you taken data with the Australia Telescope National Facility but haven’t reduced it yet? Are you stuck on some arcane point of imaging and calibration? […]

SETI Breakthrough Workshop

March 3, 2016

The Breakthrough Foundation and Yuri Milner have entered into an agreement with CSIRO to use the Parkes Telescope to Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The Breakthrough Listen program will be […]

SETI Breakthrough Workshop

March 2, 2016

by Ron Ekers (CASS) The Breakthrough Foundation and Yuri Milner have entered into an agreement with CSIRO to use the Parkes Telescope to Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The Breakthrough […]

The supermassive black hole, that wasn’t

March 1, 2016

by Juan Madrid (CASS) and Carlos Donzelli (Cordoba Observatory, Argentina) Supermassive black holes are though neighbours. Supermassive black holes reside in the center of galaxies and occupy the same space […]

Management team visit to Tidbinbilla

February 29, 2016

by Simon Johnston (CASS) CASS Management went to the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) at Tidbinbilla last Monday. While there, they took the opportunity to check out the latest […]

Welcome to Jimi Green 🙂

February 26, 2016

CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) welcomes back Dr Jimi Green who joins the Operations Group as Senior System Scientist for Parkes. Jimi will be based in Marsfield, but a […]

The host galaxy of a Fast Radio Burst

February 25, 2016

For the first time a team of scientists has tracked down the location of a fast radio burst (FRB) , confirming that these short but spectacular flashes of radio waves […]

ATNF Colloquium – Untangling magnetic fields using LOFAR observations of pulsars

February 24, 2016

by Charlotte Sobey (CASS/UCurtin) Abstract: The focus of this talk is using next-generation low-frequency radio telescopes (e.g. LOFAR: The Low Frequency Array) to observe pulsars, which provide powerful probes of […]

Solar power array for ASKAP

February 23, 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. Energy Made Clean (EMC) and […]

Solar grating interferometer at Potts Hill

February 22, 2016

Photo by Rodney D. Davies (Jodrell Bank) This picture taken by Rod in 1953 is the 32 dish solar grating interferometer which was used by Christiansen to compute, for the […]