Fisheye view of ATCA at night

March 31, 2020

The screen shot above is from a time-lapse video by Alex Cherney of the Australia Telescope Compact Array. The fisheye view shows the moon low on the western horizon, the […]

ASKAP observations of planets – by Emil Lenc

March 30, 2020

The ASKAP Survey for Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) and the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS) are being used to search for radio sources that vary over time-scales of minutes, […]

Tidbinbilla 70m maintenance block

March 27, 2020

The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex at Tidbinbilla has a number of antennas, with the 70m DSS-43 the largest. Originally constructed as a 64m antenna in 1973 DSS-43 was expanded […]

Astrofest SKA Booth photo competition

March 26, 2020

The Square Kilometre Array booth at the Perth AstroFest earlier this month ran a photo contest, and the image above is the winner! One of the goals of the SKA […]

Astrofest public talks

March 25, 2020

The annual Perth AstroFest was held earlier this month at Curtin University. Organised by Astronomy WA and ICRAR, Astrofest featured an astrophotography exhibition, inflatable planetariums, science shows, public talks and […]

STANSW Life Membership awarded to Rob Hollow

March 24, 2020

The CASS Education and Outreach Officer Rob Hollow has been made a Life Member of the Science Teachers’ Association of New South Wales (STANSW). Rob is one of just 14 […]

Radio and X-ray monitoring of an accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar in outburst – by Gusinskaia et al.

March 23, 2020

In August, the International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) Xray and gamma-ray telescope discovered a new transient, IGR J17591−2342. The high absorption seen in the X-ray spectrum suggested the source is […]

ASKAP Update for March (featuring WALLABY Hydra Cluster observations)

March 20, 2020

The ASKAP Update for March is now available. In addition to news on Pilot Survey observations, ASKAP System Development, and Digital System testing, the above image from the WALLABY Pilot […]

Long Baseline Array observing

March 19, 2020

The angular resolution of a telescope improves with the diameter of the dish, or with the spacing between elements of the array. The technique of Very Long Baseline Interferometry uses […]

Antennas and animals, again

March 18, 2020

Last Friday’s ADAP showed a camel in front of an ASKAP antenna, and today’s continues the theme of antennas and animals with an archival image of the Canberra Deep Space […]

ATNF Science Retreat

March 17, 2020

Following Bolton Symposium last week, members of the ATNF Science Team spent two days at the Perth Zoo for a Retreat. The geographically diverse nature of the team means it […]

Bolton Symposium

March 16, 2020

The 2020 Bolton Symposium was held last week at CSIRO’s Kensington site in Perth. The morning was devoted to short research summary talks, with Early Career Researchers given 3~5 minutes […]