ATNF Colloquium – AAL member update to CSIRO Space & Astronomy

August 14, 2024

Orsola De Marco, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer, Romy Pearse Abstract: AAL is a not-for-profit organisation, whose members are Australian universities and institutions with a significant astronomical research capability. CSIRO Space […]

IAU Offices Plenary Session

August 13, 2024

The program for the 2024 International Astronomical Union General Assembly has a plenary session at the start of each day. Yesterday’s session started with a presentation from Nobel Laureate Brian […]

SKA Day at the IAU GA

August 12, 2024

National Women’s Day is a public holiday celebrated each year on August 9th in South Africa. The day commemorates the 1956 march of 20,000 women to protest against the country’s […]

IAU General Assembly 2024

August 9, 2024

The 2024 International Astronomical Union General Assembly is being held from August 6th to 15th in Cape Town and on-line. In addition to the scientific meetings, the Convention Centre exhibition […]

IAU General Assembly 2024

August 8, 2024

The 2024 International Astronomical Union General Assembly is being held from August 6th to 15th in Cape Town and on-line. As usual, the General Assembly includes a number of IAU […]

ATNF Colloquium – The Sydney Radio Star Catalogue: a new catalogue of radio stars

August 7, 2024

Laura Driessen (University of Sydney) Abstract: I will present a new catalogue of 839 radio stars detected

Optical imaging of the supernova remnant Hoinga

August 6, 2024

A team of amateur astrophotographers, Team New Horizons, has unveiled a comprehensive colour visible light image of the supernova remnant G249.5+24.5, dubbed Hoinga. In December 2023, the team imaged a […]

Tasso Tzioumis retirement colloquium

August 5, 2024

There was a large audience gathered (both in person and on-line) for Tasso Tzioumis’s retirement colloquium last Friday. Tasso joined CSIRO 34 years ago, but had strong links to CSIRO […]

ATNF Colloquium – 34 years with CSIRO

August 2, 2024

Tasso Tzioumis Abstract: On the occasion of his retirement from CSIRO, Tasso Tzioumis will look back over his 34 year career in the Australia Telescope National Facility. (Image credit: John […]

Conversation article on weighing a neutron star

August 1, 2024

A recent ADAP covered the combining of X-ray and radio data to accurately determine the mass of a neutron star. This work has been described in an article in The […]