ATNF Colloquium – An introduction to Heliophysics

January 25, 2023

Mark Cheung (CSIRO Space & Astronomy) Abstract: Heliophysics is the study of the Sun and how it influences the space environments around the planets, other solar system bodies and the […]

Vacation Student ATCA Observations

January 24, 2023

The CSIRO Space & Astronomy Undergraduate Vacation Scholarship Program is designed to provide students with the opportunity to work on real-world problems in a leading research organisation. Each scholar undertakes […]

From the Sun to the Cosmos

January 23, 2023

The book Joe Pawsey and the Founding of Australian Radio Astronomy , subtitled Early Discoveries, from the Sun to the Cosmos has just been published by Springer as a open […]

Happy Lunar New Year!

January 20, 2023

The Lunar New Year is celebrated this Sunday, January 22nd. In Eastern Asia, Lunar New Year begins on the date of the second new Moon after the December solstice. In […]

Where are all the supernova remnants?

January 19, 2023

In an article for The Conversation , Andrew Hopkins describes work that combines data from the ASKAP radio telescope and the Parkes radio telescope, Murriyang, to answer the question: where […]

Beyond the Milky Way

January 18, 2023

Yesterday’s ADAP mentioned Beyond the Milky Way an immersive 25-minute, 360° virtual reality cinema experience. The documentary is narrated by physicist Professor Brian Cox and examines the questions that the […]

Little Green Telescopes

January 17, 2023

When the first pulsar was discovered at Cambridge in the 1960s, astronomers struggled to find an explanation for the metronome-like regularity of the pulses. For a short time the source […]

Asteroids can have moons too!

January 16, 2023

Six of the eight planets in our Solar System have moons (all except Mercury and Venus) and minor planets like Pluto have moons, or satellites, too. And as the image […]

The distance problem in astronomy

January 13, 2023

One of the big challenges in astronomy is determining the distance to celestial objects. If a supernova shell is close to our solar system, it will appear to be much […]

Nulling in PSR J1401−6357 – by Chen et al.

January 12, 2023

Pulsars are like celestial lighthouses, emitting regular flashes of radio waves. But occasionally the pulse emission quenches abruptly for a period of time, which is referred to as nulling — […]

Parkes Observatory Playground

January 11, 2023

Last March funding was announced for the Parkes Observatory from the NSW Regional Tourism Activation Fund. One of the items in the package was the construction of a new spaced-themed […]

Parkes Elvis Festival 2023

January 10, 2023

The Parkes Elvis Festival celebrated its 30th year this year! The theme for this year’s festival, held from January 4th to 8th, was Blue Hawaii. As shown above, and in […]