Parkes Dish with double rainbow

April 28, 2017

by Rob Hollow (CASS) A stunning double rainbow over the Dish on Wednesday afternoon lights it up ahead of the “Astronomy from the Ground Up! teacher workshop, starting today and […]

ATNF Seminar – Hot Stars and Scintillators

April 27, 2017

by Mark Walker (Manly Astrophysics) Abstract. In February the ATESE project discovered extreme scintillations in a quasar only 8.5 arcmin from Spica – one of the brightest stars in the […]

ATNF Colloquium – Supernovae and their remnants

April 26, 2017

by Denis Leahy (University of Calgary) Abstract. Supernovae create and disperse heavy elements throughout the Galaxy and into the intergalactic medium. They are also the main source of energy for […]

ATNF Colloquium – A high-energy view of the galaxy-scale metal gas at z=0.5-3

April 24, 2017

by Johannes Buchner (Universidad Catolica, Chile) Abstract. At the peak of star formation (z=0.5-3), an important yet hard-to-constrain measurable is the metal gas content of galaxies, a side-product of the […]

Parkes Dish shaded in blue

April 21, 2017

by Mal Smith (CASS) The 64-m Parkes Radiotelescope is shaded blue, in support of the local Currajong Autism and Special Needs Group, as part of International Autism Month. See also […]

ATNF Colloquium – The Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope Project Update

April 20, 2017

by Mark Waterson (SKA Office) Abstract. The Square Kilometre Array is an ambitious project to create a new radio astronomy facility combining both dish and aperture-array technologies to provide a […]

ATNF Colloquium – Tracing the Galactic bar through dense molecular cores with broad emission spectra

April 19, 2017

by Shaila Akhter (UNSW) Abstract. Study of high-mass star formation help us to understand the evolution of our Galaxy, its surrounding ISM and shape of the Universe! Currently scientists do […]

Parkes Dish against a violet sky

April 18, 2017

One of many beautiful pictures of CSIRO’s 64-m Parkes Radio Telescope. Recent projects include mapping neutral hydrogen in nearby galaxies, searching for fast radio bursts and timing pulsars.

ASKAP antenna dance

April 13, 2017

by Brett Hiscock (CASS) A total of 30 ASKAP antennas are now equipped with wide-field Phased-Array Feeds (PAFs) – delivering a field of view of 30 sq degr on the […]

ATNF Colloquium – Accretion modes, AGN feedback and star formation

April 12, 2017

by Gulay Gurkan (CASS) Abstract. In this colloquium, I will present several key results of my research projects that have been mainly on AGN and star forming galaxies. Firstly I […]

PAF installation on ASKAP

April 11, 2017

by Brett Hiscock (CASS) A total of 30 ASKAP antennas are now equipped with wide-field Phased-Array Feeds (PAFs) – delivering a field of view of 30 sq degr on the […]

Supernova 1987A thirty years later

April 10, 2017

by Lister Staveley-Smith (UWA/ICRAR) A great article by Alak Ray (Tata Institute, India) on the IAU Symposium 331, celebrating the 30th anniversary of SN1987A, published last week in Nature Astronomy. […]