Owens Valley Radio Observatory

August 25, 2022

The Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) is a radio astronomy observatory of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). John Bolton and Gordon Stanley joined Caltech from CSIRO in the 1950s […]

ATNF Colloquium – SKA Korea, Now and with AUS

August 24, 2022

Hyunwoo Kang (KASI) Abstract: Patiently, SKA Korea is trying to join SKAO, next generation of radio astronomy. SKA Korea is organised by various scientists, and has worked many activities. From […]

Radio detection of an elusive millisecond pulsar – by Lei Zhang et al.

August 23, 2022

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are evolved neutron stars with short spin periods that have gone through a long period of mass transfer in a low-mass X-ray binary phase. Globular clusters (GCs) […]

A fossil radio source in Abell 3266 – by Christopher Riseley and Tessa Vernstrom

August 22, 2022

An international team led by Chris Riseley have identified a series of rarely observed radio objects – a radio relic, a radio halo and fossil radio emission – within a […]

The “wrong-way” relic in Abell 3266 – by Christopher Riseley and Tessa Vernstrom

August 19, 2022

Galaxy clusters contain hundreds, or even thousands, of individual galaxies. However, these galaxies represent only a few percent of a cluster’s total mass. About 80% of it is dark matter, […]

The galaxy cluster Abell 3266 – by Christopher Riseley and Tessa Vernstrom

August 18, 2022

Galaxy clusters are huge structures found at the intersections of the cosmic web. A single cluster can span millions of light-years across and be made up of hundreds, or even […]

ATNF Colloquium – A history of radioastronomy in CSIRO – a personal view

August 17, 2022

David McConnell Abstract: Over my 45 years practicing Radio Astronomy I have followed a track never far from then technology-science boundary, the interface between the measurement process and the use […]

“ASKAP Recap” event this evening

August 16, 2022

As part of National Science Week, an online virtual event celebrating ASKAP’s achievements will take place tonight (AEST). Hear from the scientists using ASKAP every day to further their studies, […]

First ASKAP images from Setonix – by Wasim Raja and Pascal Elahi

August 15, 2022

The enormous data rates from new-generation radio telescopes such as ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder) need highly capable software running on supercomputers. In a major milestone on the path […]

20th Anniversary of first ATCA North-Spur Fringes

August 12, 2022

When it was first constructed in the late 1980s, the Australia Telescope Compact Array had a 3-km East-West rail track for five antennas to be moved along ( and a […]

Busan welcomes the IAU

August 11, 2022

The International Astronomical Union General Assembly is currently underway in Busan, South Korea. Gwangan Bridge, or Diamond Bridge, a 7km long suspension bridge that was opened in 2003, is one […]

ATNF Colloquium – Timing and Searching for Binary Pulsar Systems with the MeerKAT telescope

August 10, 2022

Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan (MPIfR) Abstract: Pulsars in relativistic binary (RelBin) systems are remarkable laboratories in space for understanding gravity and binary evolution. Timing pulsars in such binaries has long long […]