Blue trees
September 11, 2026
The Blue Tree Project is a mental health charity that began in 2019 after the tragic loss of a much-loved son, brother and friend to suicide in 2018. While it […]
R U OK? Day
September 10, 2026
R U OK? Day is an annual event held on the second Thursday of September. R U OK? is an Australian suicide prevention charity and registered public health promotion that […]
ATNF Colloquium — Thavisha Dharmawardena (Monash University)
September 9, 2026
Towards a Multidimensional View of the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies: Tracing Stars, Gas, and Dust from the Nearest Molecular Cloud to Our Galactic Neighbours This artists’ impression shows the […]
LAMBDA at ATCA
September 8, 2026
SKA-Low will be a transformational low-frequency radio telescope, providing unprecedented capability to detect and study the Epoch of Reionisation, catalog radio emission from galaxies at all cosmic epochs, and answer […]
Australia Telescope Users Committee meeting
September 7, 2026
The Australia Telescope Users Committee (ATUC) is a group of ~12 scientists who represent the users of the Australia Telescope National Facility. This committee is appointed by the ATNF Steering Committee and […]
ASKAP VAST Monitoring of Classical Novae
September 4, 2026
A classical nova is a thermonuclear transient in a compact, accreting binary system known as a cataclysmic variable. In a binary system of a white dwarf and a companion star, […]
ASKAP VAST Monitoring of Classical Novae
September 3, 2026
A classical nova is a thermonuclear transient in a compact, accreting binary system known as a cataclysmic variable. In a binary system of a white dwarf and a companion star, […]
ATNF Colloquium — Fraser Cowie (University of Oxford)
September 2, 2026
Radio flaring across the X-ray binary population The population of radio detected low-mass X-ray binaries in our galaxy is shown by the red dots, and the position of Earth by […]
Laying the foundations
September 1, 2026
Work has started on a new antenna at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC), at Tidbinbilla. The 34-meter diameter, multi-frequency, azimuth-elevation, center-fed beam waveguide antenna will be known as […]
ASKAP discovery of a pair of large radio bubbles
August 31, 2026
Su et al. report the serendipitous discovery of a large, low-surface-brightness radio bubble in 944 MHz continuum data from the ASKAP Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) survey. The structure, […]
Wear It Purple day
August 28, 2026
Wear it Purple is an international day of recognition held on the last Friday in August. It strives to foster supportive, safe, empowering and inclusive environments for LGBTIQ+ people everywhere. Wear […]
Two new highly scattered fast radio bursts
August 27, 2026
Jahns-Schindler et al. report the detection of two highly scattered Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) with the Commensal Realtime ASKAP Fast Transient COherent (CRACO) backend. FRB 240210D and FRB 240312D have […]
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