Anniversary of the Radioheliograph opening

September 22, 2023

Today is the anniversary of the opening of the Culgoora Solar Observatory, and commissioning of the Culgoora radioheliograph . The radio-heliograph, which operated from 1967 to 1984, consisted of 96 […]

ASKAP Update for September

September 21, 2023

The ASKAP update for July includes reports on survey progress, maintenance activities, proposed data validation assignment changes, polarisation calibration investigations, and Guest Science Project preparation. The image above shows a […]

ATNF Colloquium – Transients in the era of large surveys

September 20, 2023

Anais Moller (Swinburne) Abstract: Vera C. Rubin Observatory will open a new era for optical astronomy by imaging the Southern Sky at unprecedented depths. I will introduce Fink, which will […]

The Sun’s rays at sunrise

September 19, 2023

The Australia Telescope Compact Array is currently in one of its more compact array configurations — a “hybrid” array with two antennas on the north-south spur. This image, captured just […]

Venus at greatest brilliance

September 18, 2023

Venus is the brightest planet as seen from Earth, and it is currently at its greatest brilliancy. As Venus orbits the Sun closer than the Earth, it is visible either […]

Polar Ring Galaxies in The Conversation

September 15, 2023

The Conversation is an independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community and providing independent, explanatory journalism on current affairs. As described in yesterday’s ADAP […]

WALLABY discovery of Potential Polar Ring Galaxies – by Deg et al.

September 14, 2023

Deg et al. report on the discovery of two potential polar ring galaxies (PRGs) in WALLABY pilot survey data. These untargetted detections, cross-matched to NGC 4632 and NGC 6156, are […]

ATNF Colloquium – A Universal Murder Mystery – What is killing galaxies?

September 13, 2023

Luke Davies (UWA) Abstract: The Universe is dying. All across the cosmos for the last 10 billion years galaxies have been continuously killed, and we still don’t know why. Today […]

Testing General Relativity with the PSR J1757-1854 double neutron star system – by Cameron et al.

September 12, 2023

PSR J1757−1854 is one of the most relativistic double neutron star binary systems known in our Galaxy, with an orbital period of 4.4 hr and an orbital eccentricity of 0.61. […]

Rapid radio brightening of GRB 210702A – by Anderson et al.

September 11, 2023

Anderson et al. report the detection of the rapid radio brightening of GRB 210702A with the ATCA just 11 h post-burst. Early-time radio variability was tracked over a 5 hr […]

Vice Regal visit to Parkes

September 8, 2023

The Australian Governor-General David Hurley and his wife Linda were in Parkes yesterday and visited the Parkes Observatory during their stay. The Governor-General and Mrs Hurley were greeted on their […]

Variables and Slow Transients workshop – by Laura Driessen

September 7, 2023

Over the last three days of August the Variables and Slow Transients with ASKAP (VAST) survey team got together at CSIRO Marsfield to talk all about radio transients with ASKAP. […]