Happy Birthday Parkes!

October 30, 2020

The Parkes 64m radiotelescope was opened on October 31st, 1961. How better to commemorate this occasion than to break out the pencils and spend some time colouring in a picture […]

FAST radio bursts – by Luo et al.

October 29, 2020

This week’s issue of Nature contains a report on the detection of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) from a repeating FRB source using the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in China. […]

Leaving a stamp on history

October 28, 2020

The Parkes 64m radiotelescope was opened on October 31st, 1961. Despite 59 years of ground-breaking astronomical work, the telescope is probably best-known within Australia for its work in support of […]

Twist and Shout

October 27, 2020

The Parkes 64m radiotelescope was opened on October 31st, 1961, which is the same year the song Twist and Shout was written by Phil Medley and Bert Berns. It was […]

Parkes 59th Anniversary

October 26, 2020

Saturday, October 31st markes the 59th anniversary of the opening of the Parkes 210-foot radio-telescope. The telescope was opened by the Governor-General, Viscount De L’Isle. William Sidney, the 1st Viscount […]

Welcome Andrew Zic

October 23, 2020

We welcome Andrew Zic, who has joined CASS as a CSIRO Research Plus Postdoc hosted by Macquarie University. In his role at CASS, Andrew will be analysing the effects of […]

OSIRIS-REx touches down on Bennu

October 22, 2020

NASA’s first mission to return a sample from an ancient asteroid is the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer , or OSIRIS-REx. The satellite briefly touched down on the […]

Pawsey supercomputer centre upgrade

October 21, 2020

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has announced that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has been selected to deliver its new supercomputer, which will power future high-impact Australian research projects by delivering 30 […]

Tidbinbilla blossom

October 20, 2020

The 70 m Deep Space Network (DSN) radio telescope at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC), DSS-43, has been off-line most of this year for a Depot-Level Maintenance period […]

Welcome Suk Yee Yong

October 19, 2020

Suk Yee Yong joined CASS last month. Suk Yee completed her PhD on the Nature of Quasar Disk-Winds at the University of Melbourne earlier this year. She has taken up […]

Searching 10 million stars to see if anyone is home

October 16, 2020

Are we alone in the Universe? This fundamental question has propelled the curiosity of writers and scientists alike for hundreds of years. A recent blog by Chenoa Tremblay describes work […]

Precise radio astrometry and new developments for the next-generation instruments – by Maria Rioja and Richard Dodson

October 15, 2020

Maria J. Rioja (CASS/ICRAR-UWA, OAN) and Richard Dodson (ICRAR-UWA) have published an Astronomy & Astrophysics Review paper that focuses on the achievements to date and the future of high-precision astrometry, […]