ATNF Colloquium – Investigating the Epoch of Reionisation with Radio Interferometers

August 21, 2024

Pascal Keller (Leiden Observatory) Abstract: The Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) marks the cosmic period during which the neutral hydrogen that pervaded the Universe transitioned to an almost entirely ionised state. […]

The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array at the Frontiers of Science

August 20, 2024

The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array collaboration has been awarded a Frontiers of Science Award at the 2024 International Congress of Basic Science . Andrew Zic accepted the award on behalf […]

Milky Way from rural NSW

August 19, 2024

Luke Vadekar had a week at Space and Astronomy last week for work experience. Luke is also a keen astrophotographer, with one of his works shown above. Luke explains, “Here […]

PULSE@Parkes at the IAU

August 16, 2024

The Australia Telescope National Facility booth at the 2024 International Astronomical Union General Assembly has given out a lot of stickers and postcards, answered a lot of questions, and also […]

First images from an SKA-Low station

August 15, 2024

The SKAO has just released a first video of images made with one complete SKA-Low station. The SKA-Low station S8-6 produced the images only five months after the first antenna […]

ATNF Colloquium – AAL member update to CSIRO Space & Astronomy

August 14, 2024

Orsola De Marco, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer, Romy Pearse Abstract: AAL is a not-for-profit organisation, whose members are Australian universities and institutions with a significant astronomical research capability. CSIRO Space […]

IAU Offices Plenary Session

August 13, 2024

The program for the 2024 International Astronomical Union General Assembly has a plenary session at the start of each day. Yesterday’s session started with a presentation from Nobel Laureate Brian […]

SKA Day at the IAU GA

August 12, 2024

National Women’s Day is a public holiday celebrated each year on August 9th in South Africa. The day commemorates the 1956 march of 20,000 women to protest against the country’s […]

IAU General Assembly 2024

August 9, 2024

The 2024 International Astronomical Union General Assembly is being held from August 6th to 15th in Cape Town and on-line. In addition to the scientific meetings, the Convention Centre exhibition […]

IAU General Assembly 2024

August 8, 2024

The 2024 International Astronomical Union General Assembly is being held from August 6th to 15th in Cape Town and on-line. As usual, the General Assembly includes a number of IAU […]

ATNF Colloquium – The Sydney Radio Star Catalogue: a new catalogue of radio stars

August 7, 2024

Laura Driessen (University of Sydney) Abstract: I will present a new catalogue of 839 radio stars detected < 3 GHz: the Sydney Radio Star Catalogue (SRSC). Most of these stars […]

Optical imaging of the supernova remnant Hoinga

August 6, 2024

A team of amateur astrophotographers, Team New Horizons, has unveiled a comprehensive colour visible light image of the supernova remnant G249.5+24.5, dubbed Hoinga. In December 2023, the team imaged a […]