Shared Sky – The SKA’s Indigenous Art/Astronomy Exhibition

August 11, 2016

This beautiful exhibition was first displayed at the John Curtin Gallery in Perth, Australia, in 2014. It is currently touring in Manchester, U.K., until 3 September 2016. – More information: […]

ATNF Colloquium – Juno and Dawn Missions

August 10, 2016

by Larry James, Scott Bolton, Rick Nybakken, Tim Weise (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Abstract. Launched in August of 2011, the Juno spacecraft reached Jupiter on July 4, 2016. Jupiter is by far the […]

WIFI Invention in British Museum “History of the World” exhibition

August 9, 2016

Great article by Louise Maher on CSIRO wi-fi invention named as 101st object in British Museum History Of The World exhibition . She writes: “The ground-breaking Australian invention that paved […]

2016 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

August 8, 2016

by Joe Callingham (Sydney University) The picture shows the Australian delegation at the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (#LiNo16 was dedicated to physics), held from the 26th of June to […]

The Ursa Major cluster redefined as a `supergroup’

August 5, 2016

by Emma Ryan-Weber (Swinburne University) Kathrin Wolfinger’s paper on the The Ursa Major cluster has been accepted for publication in PASA. Kathrin completed her PhD at Swinburne over a year […]

2016-2017 Undergraduate Vacation Scholarship Applications Now Open

August 4, 2016

by Rob Hollow (CASS) Applications are now open for the 2016 – 2017 CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) Undergraduate Vacation Scholarships. Scholarships are available in Astrophysics, Engineering, Computing and […]

ATNF Colloquium – A new Spin on Angular Momentum

August 3, 2016

by Danail Obreschkow (ICRAR/UWA) Abstract. Since the time of Kant it has been supposed that angular momentum (AM) was fundamental to the nature of the `spiral nebulae’, now known as […]

Optical and radio astrometry of the galaxy associated with FRB150418

August 2, 2016

by Simon Johnston (CASS) A fading radio source, coincident in time and position with the fast radio burst FRB 150418, has been associated with the galaxy WISE J071634.59-190039.2. Subsequent observations […]

Time Assignment Committee at work

August 1, 2016

by Phil Edwards (CASS) The ATNF Time Assignment Committee (TAC) met in Marsfield last week to review proposals for Parkes, the Australia Telescope Compact Array, Tidbinbilla, and the Long Baseline […]

A radio-pulsing white dwarf binary star

July 29, 2016

by Phil Edwards (CASS) White dwarfs are compact stars, similar in size to Earth but approximately 200,000 times more massive. Isolated white dwarfs emit most of their power from ultraviolet […]

Detecting Pulsars with Interstellar Scintillation in Variance Images

July 28, 2016

by Shi Dai (CASS) Pulsars are the only cosmic radio sources known to be sufficiently compact to show diffractive interstellar scintillations. Images of the variance of radio signals in both […]

ATNF Colloquium – Here be Spiral DRAGNs

July 27, 2016

by Minnie Mao (Manchester University) Abstract. In the local Universe, large-scale double-lobed radio sources are almost always hosted by elliptical galaxies. This is consistent with leading galaxy formation models that […]