2019 CASS Undergraduate Vacation Scholarship Applications Now Open
Applications now open for the 2019/20 CASS Undergraduate Vacation Scholarships. Our Undergraduate Vacation Scholarships are run over the Australian summer holidays and offer high achieving and promising undergraduate students the […]
Astronomers make history in a split second
In a world first, an Australian-led international team of astronomers has determined the precise location of a powerful one-off burst of cosmic radio waves. The discovery was made with CSIRO’s […]
CSIRO Science Leader position advertised: Massive data challenges in the era of the SKA
A position as CSIRO Science Leader with CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) has been advertised to spearhead a new “Massive Data†effort that leverages CASS’s world-leading expertise in radio […]
CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cosmic Magnetism
CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years relevant postdoctoral work experience. The CERC […]
CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Low Frequency Radio Astronomy
CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years relevant postdoctoral work experience. The CERC […]
Congratulations Dr Lewis Ball!
CASS welcomes the appointment of Lewis Ball to SKA Director of Operations. Lewis is well known to many staff in CASS, having joined CSIRO in 2001 as Deputy OiC at […]
Research Scientist position in Observational Radio Astronomy advertised
CSIRO are seeking to appoint an experienced Research Scientist to carry out worldâ€class research using facilities associated with CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) and its partners, including the Australian […]
Congratulations Ron Ekers and Elaine Sadler
Prof. Ron Ekers and Prof. Elaine Sadler have today been made Officers in the Order of Australia (AO). Elaine, our new ATNF Chief Scientist, received her award for distinguished service […]
WA telescope set to outdo Large Hadron Collider
A trial detector for ‘cosmic rays’ with a CSIRO-built ‘backend’ (processor) has been set up alongside the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) at CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia. […]
Why ATCA is following the cosmic Cow
AT2018cow, nicknamed “the Cow” was an incredibly luminous event, brighter than almost any supernova ever seen before. An international network of telescopes including ATCA (the Australia Telescope Compact Array) has […]
We’re all ears as Voyager 2 goes interstellar
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A search for the host galaxy of FRB 171020
A new paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters outlines a possible location for one of 20 recently identified fast radio bursts (FRBs). Narrowed down to a galaxy near our own, this […]