National NAIDOC Week 2024

July 8, 2024

National NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia in the first week of July each year to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait […]

The Square Kilometre Array – A Science Mega-Project in the Making

July 5, 2024

Planning to build the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) has been long and complex, reflecting the many issues faced in creating an affordable design, choosing a site, and developing a viable […]

The ATNF News

July 4, 2024

The Australia Telescope National Facility was founded in 1989, and the first issue of the ATNF News was published shortly afterwards, to keep the community of ATNF Users (and potential […]

ATNF Colloquium – The role of AGN in regulating galaxy evolution in massive z~3-4 galaxies

July 3, 2024

Monserrat Martinez (Swinburne Uni of Technology) Abstract: An excess of massive quiescent galaxies (MQGs) is found at the early universe (z~3-4). MQGs at this epoch suggest their stellar content was […]

A Millisecond Pulsar Binary Embedded in a Galactic Center Radio Filament – by Lower et al.

July 2, 2024

The Galactic center is host to a population of extraordinary radio filaments, thin linear structures that trace out magnetic field lines running perpendicular to the Galactic plane. Using Murriyang, the […]

Andrew Zic wins Louise Webster Prize 2024

July 1, 2024

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

ASA Annual Scientific Meeting 2024

June 28, 2024

The 2024 Astronomical Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting has been taking place this week, jointly hosted by CSIRO and ICRAR. This year’s meeting has been held in an online-first […]

Canada joins the SKA

June 27, 2024

Canada has joined the SKA Observatory as a Member, becoming the tenth country to join the intergovernmental organisation. Earlier this month the Canadian Government has announced announced a CAN$269m (approximately […]

ATNF Colloquium – A brief history of time(keeping): atomic clocks at the precision frontier of fundamental physics

June 26, 2024

Benjamin Roberts (University of Queensland) Abstract: Atomic clocks are the most precise instrucments ever constructed. The best atomic clocks today have a precision that corresponds to losing no more than […]

ASKAP-EMU Discovery of New Galactic SNR Candidate: Unicycle – by Smeaton et al.

June 25, 2024

When some stars reach the end of their lives they explode as a supernova (SN), and the ejecta from the progenitor star forms an expanding structure known as a supernova […]

ASKAP Update for June

June 24, 2024

The ASKAP Update for June reports on the key feedback from the Survey Science Project review workshop and the completion of RACS-high processing. The RACS (Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey) team […]

Sunrise at Boolardy

June 21, 2024

Kurt Warhurst took this spectacular picture earlier this month at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory. Kurt notes: “The photo was taken Friday June 7th 6:48am, between first light […]