ATNF Colloquium – MeerKAT early results, status and plans

October 23, 2018

by Fernando Camilo (SARAO) Abstract: After more than a decade in the making, the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory’s MeerKAT radio telescope was inaugurated in July 2018 and is now […]

Farewell to Lisa Harvey-Smith

October 22, 2018

Marsfield staff gathered on Friday to farewell Lisa Harvey-Smith and congratulate her on her appointment as Australia’s first Women in STEM Ambassador . Lisa joined CSIRO nine years ago, and […]

Cricket on the Dish

October 19, 2018

As noted in yesterday’s ADAP, Cricket Australia last week launched its new junior development program, Cricket Blast, at the Parkes Observatory. The kids played cricket with The Dish in the […]

Cricket at the Dish

October 18, 2018

Last week, Cricket Australia launched its new junior development program, Cricket Blast, at the Parkes Observatory. The event featured dozens of kids and a number Big Bash League players: Chris […]

ATNF Colloquium – Toward detecting cosmic rays at the Murchison Radio-astronomy observatory

October 17, 2018

by Justin Bray (University of Manchester) Abstract: Recent work with LOFAR has shown that aperture-array radio telescopes are highly effective at measuring the radio footprint from a cosmic ray interacting […]

Warning signs at Parkes

October 16, 2018

During the CASS Executive visit to the Parkes Observatory yesterday, some new signage was spotted on the exterior of one of the buildings on site. As previously documented , wildlife […]

How big is the Parkes dish?

October 15, 2018

When it was opened in 1961, the Parkes dish was described as being 210 feet in diameter. With the adoption of the metric system in Australia, the dish is now […]

ASKAP detection of FRBs – (by Shannon et al.)

October 12, 2018

It took the world’s telescopes 10 years to find the first 30 Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Using ASKAP, a team of scientists have been able to find 20 in one […]

The LMC supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5 – (by Roper et al.)

October 11, 2018

Roper et al. have recently compared two Chandra X-ray images to measure the expansion of a supernova remnant (SNR) in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The images above show (at left) […]

ATNF Colloquium – The first Large Survey Project observations with MeerKAT

October 10, 2018

by Ian Heywood (University of Oxford) Abstract: In April 2018 the South African MeerKAT array took its first full 64-dish observations for two of its upcoming Large Survey Projects, namely […]

ATCA imaging of the SN1987A remnant – (by Cendes et al.)

October 9, 2018

Cendes et al. report on updated radio imaging observations of the radio remnant of Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A) at 9 GHz, taken with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), covering […]

Sunlit Parkes, from the CSIRO image library

October 8, 2018

Scienceimage is an image library, presented by CSIRO, specialising in science and nature images. The image above of the Parkes 64m telescope , taken with a wide angle lens, is […]