WALLABY team members in Perth

February 19, 2016

The WALLABY team during a break at the Early Science workshop, where ASKAP field selection for the first upcoming science observations was a top priority. Our focus is on nearby […]

Celestial Fireworks in M87

February 18, 2016

by Juan Madrid (CASS) The Hubble Space Telescope was used to hunt for novae in the central part of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy – top image. Hubble took images […]

21 cm HI-line spectra of southern ZOA galaxies

February 17, 2016

by Khaled Said (UCT) Galaxies are distributed in a cosmic web consisting of high-density clusters and galaxy groups, which are embedded in walls, and filaments surrounding large low-density regions, the […]

WALLABY kinematics group meeting

February 16, 2016

by Lister Staveley-Smith (UWA/ICRAR) The Wallaby kinematics working group met at the University of Cape Town on 4 Feb after the 2016 PHISCC meeting at SAAO. The purpose of the […]

WALLABY Early Science Workshop

February 15, 2016

Following a successful source-finding busy week at UWA/ICRAR last week, it’s time for the WALLABY Early Science workshop this week. Our goal is to select suitable southern fields, each about […]

Aussie innovation helps hunt down gravitational waves

February 12, 2016

For the first time in history, astronomers have detected the presence of elusive gravitational waves – ripples in space time that provide direct evidence of violent cosmic events taking place […]

PAF on Parkes

February 11, 2016

by Simon Johnston (CASS) On Wednesday 10th February, the Phased-Array Feed was hoisted into the focus cabin of the Parkes radio telescope . All went well with the lift, and […]

The Parkes HI Zone of Avoidance Survey

February 10, 2016

by Anja Schröder (SAAO) A blind HI survey of the extragalactic sky behind the southern Milky Way has been conducted with the multibeam receiver on the 64-m Parkes radio telescope. […]

Wishing you a prosperous New Year !

February 9, 2016

by Karen Lee-Waddell (CASS) The Chinese characters in today’s image are pronounced “Gong Hey Fat Choy” (Cantonese) or “Gong Xi Fa Cai” (Mandarin) and constitute the traditional greeting for the […]

The Year of the Monkey

February 8, 2016

by Jing Wang (CASS) The 8th of February 2016 is the first day of the Chinese New Year, the year of the monkey. Overlaid onto the Hubble color-composite image for […]

Phased-Array Feed for Parkes

February 5, 2016

by Simon Johnston (CASS) In a few days time this beautiful Phased-Array Feed (PAF) – shown above in the CSIRO Marsfield lab – will be transported to Parkes and hoisted […]

Tucana 150 degr2 field with ASKAP-BETA

February 4, 2016

by Ian Heywood (CASS) The fourth refereed science paper to use data from the BETA telescope presents a three-epoch continuum survey in the constellation of Tucana, overlapping with the Spitzer-SPT […]