Tasso Tzioumis retirement colloquium

August 5, 2024

There was a large audience gathered (both in person and on-line) for Tasso Tzioumis’s retirement colloquium last Friday. Tasso joined CSIRO 34 years ago, but had strong links to CSIRO […]

ATNF Colloquium – 34 years with CSIRO

August 2, 2024

Tasso Tzioumis Abstract: On the occasion of his retirement from CSIRO, Tasso Tzioumis will look back over his 34 year career in the Australia Telescope National Facility. (Image credit: John […]

Conversation article on weighing a neutron star

August 1, 2024

A recent ADAP covered the combining of X-ray and radio data to accurately determine the mass of a neutron star. This work has been described in an article in The […]

ATNF Colloquium – Enhancing the studies of reference frame ties and millisecond pulsar formation channels with LBA astrometry of millisecond pulsars

July 31, 2024

Hao Ding (Mizusawa VLBI Observatory, NAOJ) Abstract: Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are the fastest-spinning neutron stars. Thanks to their superbtime-keeping ability, MSPs have provided sharp tests of gravitational theories, and have […]

de Laeter Colloquium – The Transfer of Baryons in the Local Universe

July 30, 2024

Mary Putman (Columbia University) Abstract: As galaxies evolve, they transfer their baryons into different forms and between fellow galaxies. This talk will follow gaseous baryons from a dwarf galaxy to […]

A two-minute burst of highly polarised radio emission from a low Galactic latitude – by Dobie et al.

July 29, 2024

Several sources of repeating coherent bursts of radio emission with periods of many minutes have now been reported in the literature. These “ultra-long period” (ULP) sources have no clear multi-wavelength […]

The entrance to the Marsfield site

July 26, 2024

CSIRO’s Marsfield site was opened in 1968, and the picture above left was taken in the early years of the site’s existence. The picture at right shows the entrance today. […]

Radar observations of the asteroid 2012 OD1

July 25, 2024

The Near-Earth Asteroid 2012 OD1 is classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid, meaning that it is big enough (about 300m across), and that its orbit comes close enough to Earth, […]

Radio Galaxy Zoo takes on ASKAP data

July 24, 2024

Radio Galaxy Zoo (RGZ) is a citizen-science project that uses multi-wavelength data to locate supermassive black holes in distant galaxies. The original RGZ ran from 2013 to 2019, and enabled […]

Wajarri artwork presented to SKAO

July 23, 2024

The SKA Observatory (SKAO) Council met earlier this month at SKAO HQ in the UK. Council was joined by representatives of the Wajarri Yamaji, providing the opportunity to share culture […]

The Royal Astronomical Society Jackson-Gwilt Award

July 22, 2024

The Jackson-Gwilt Award of the Royal Astronomical Society was awarded earlier this year to Keith Bannister and Ryan Shannon for their innovative use of ASKAP in studies of Fast Radio […]

A NICER View of the Nearest and Brightest Millisecond Pulsar: PSR J0437-4715

July 19, 2024

The millisecond pulsar PSR J0437-4715 rotates 174 times per second but much of its characteristics have remained a mystery. Now, thanks to almost 30 years of observations from Murriyang, CSIRO’s […]