The Australian Space Agency logo

March 22, 2019

The Australian Space Agency revealed its logo late last year. At first glance, the logo appears as a satellite view of Australia, with the dots representing the light created from […]

S-PASS/ATCA survey – (by Schnitzeler et al.)

March 21, 2019

Schnitzeler et al. have recently presented S-PASS/ATCA, the first wide-band radio polarimetry survey of compact sources in the Southern sky. Targets were selected from the Parkes S-PASS survey and followed […]

50th Anniversary of Apollo 9

March 20, 2019

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 9 mission, which spent 10 days in low Earth orbit testing the Command and Service Module and the Lunar Module. In […]

50th Anniversary of Apollo 9

March 19, 2019

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 9 mission. Just 12 weeks afetr the successful Apollo 8 mission to orbit the moon and return to Earth, Apollo 9, […]

ATNF Colloquium – Insights into the Voyager 2 Mission – Progress and Outcomes

March 18, 2019

by Suzy Dodd (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Abstract: The Voyager 1 & 2 missions launched in 1977 have opened up a new understanding of the planets in our Solar System. […]

SKA treaty signing

March 15, 2019

The Australian Ambassador to Rome, Dr Greg French, was Australia’s signatory to the international treaty (the SKA Observatory Convention) which formally commits member countries to work together to provide the […]

SKA treaty signing

March 14, 2019

Ministers, Ambassadors and other high-level representatives from over 15 countries gathered in Rome this week for the signing of the treaty which establishes the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), the […]

ATNF Colloquium – How to publish (and write) an impactful paper in Nature Astronomy and beyond

March 13, 2019

by Marios Karouzos (Senior Editor, Nature Astronomy, Springer Nature Research) Abstract: Nature Astronomy, launched in January 2017, is a new research journal published by Springer Nature. Sitting alongside our sister […]

SKA convention signing

March 12, 2019

The signing of the SKA convention will take place today at the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research in Rome at 10:00 UTC, marking an historic moment in the […]

International Women’s Day

March 11, 2019

Friday March 8th, International Women’s Day, was celebrated across CSIRO with a series of talks, morning teas, and other events. One of those sharing their experiences was ATNF Chief Scientst, […]

An FRB in archival data – by Zhang et al.

March 8, 2019

Zhang et al. report the discovery of a new fast radio burst (FRB), FRB 010312, in archival data from a 1.4 GHz survey of the Magellanic Clouds using the multibeam […]

Parkes Pulsar discoveries

March 7, 2019

Burgay et al. report on the discovery of six pulsars in the intermediate-latitude region (galactic latitudes < 15 degrees) of the Parkes High Time Resolution Universe Survey (HTRU), together with […]