50th anniversary of Apollo 11

July 15, 2019

Apollo 11, with crew Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins, was launched by a Saturn V rocket on July 16th, 1969 from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. […]

ATNF Town Hall meeting at the ASA

July 12, 2019

An ATNF Town Hall meeting is now a regular part of the Astronomical Society of Australia annual meeting. The Town Hall provides the opportunity for ATNF to update the broader […]

The Louise Webster Prize awarded to Shivani Bhandari

July 11, 2019

The Louise Webster Prize is awarded annually by the Astronomical Society of Australia in recognition of outstanding research by a scientist early in their post-doctoral career. The Prize is awarded […]

ATNF Colloquium – The upgraded GMRT, an SKA Pathfinder: A Deeper view of the Low Frequency Radio Sky

July 10, 2019

Ishwara-Chandra CH (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR) Abstract: The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), in India, consists of 30 fully steerable gigantic parabolic dishes of 45m diameter each spread […]

Astronomical Society of Australia annual meeting

July 9, 2019

The annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia is being held this week at the University of Queensland. The first morning started with a Future Instrumentation session, and the […]

Celebrating NAIDOC week

July 8, 2019

NAIDOC Week is held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC originally stood for the National Aborigines and […]

Coins commemorating the Apollo 11 moon-landing

July 5, 2019

The Royal Australian Mint has launched limited edition domed coins commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Three new coins were released including the world’s first dome-shaped […]

ASKAP localisation of a Fast Radio Burst – by Bannister et al.

July 4, 2019

In a paper published in Science , Bannister et al. describe observations with ASKAP to determine the precise location of a Fast Radio Burst (FRB). A real-time search pipeline identified […]

ATNF Colloquium – Energetics and lifecycles of radio galaxies: what can models tell us?

July 3, 2019

Stas Shabala (University of Tasmania) Abstract: Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) play a key role in the formation and evolution of galaxies by imparting copious amounts of energy to their surroundings. […]

ASKAP localisation of a Fast Radio Burst – by Bannister et al.

July 2, 2019

In a paper published in Science , Bannister et al. describe observations with ASKAP to determine the precise location of a Fast Radio Burst (FRB). The galaxy from which the […]

ATNF Colloquium – NASA’s Evolving Space Communication and Navigation

July 1, 2019

Badri Younes (NASA) Abstract: As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 and its historic landing on the Moon, NASA is preparing to once again send humans deep into […]