ATCA helps capture ‘unprecedented detail’ in a gamma-ray burst
Using ground and space-based telescopes including the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), an international team has constructed one of the most detailed descriptions of a gamma-ray burst to date.The team’s […]
CASS Undergraduate Vacation Scholarship Applications now open
Applications are now open for the 2017/18 CASS Undergraduate Vacation Scholarship program. Our Undergraduate Vacation Scholarships are run over the Australian summer holidays and offer high achieving and promising undergraduate […]
Position available: Research Scientist & Observational Radio Astronomy
CASS invites applications for a Research Scientist in Observational Radio Astronomy. We are seeking someone with an outstanding track record in radio astronomy science and/or associated techniques to be involved […]
‘Pompom’ stars may solve quasar puzzle
Gas filaments surrounding stars like the strands of a pompom may be the answer to a 30-year old mystery: why quasars twinkle. This solution is published today in The Astrophysical […]
ASKAP finds its first Fast Radio Burst
CSIRO’s Australia Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope has found its first ‘fast radio burst’ from space after less than four days of searching. The discovery came so quickly that […]
Mapping the magnetic bridge between our nearest galactic neighbours
For the first time, astronomers have detected a magnetic field associated with the Magellanic Bridge, the filament of gas stretching 75,000 light-years between the Milky Way Galaxy’s nearest galactic neighbours: […]
Star discovered in closest known orbit around likely black hole
Astronomers have found evidence for a star that whips around a black hole about twice an hour. This may be the tightest orbital dance ever witnessed for a likely black […]
Position Available: Program Director, ATNF Science
CASS is seeking a leader for the new “ATNF Science” program, which joins CASS Astrophysics and ATNF Science Operations. This program contains 40 staff engaged astrophysics research and supporting world-class […]
ASKAP hits the big-data highway
One of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes, our Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) based in remote Western Australia, has officially started ‘early science’. ASKAP’s antennas are now processing […]
Cool theory on galaxy formation
Giant galaxies may grow from cold gas that condenses as stars rather than forming in hot, violent mergers. The surprise finding was made with CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array and […]
Radio National Background Briefing program
Dear Colleagues This weekend there will be an ABC radio story about staff wellbeing in astronomy, for which a number of astronomers have been interviewed about CASS. Dave Williams, our […]
Galaxies sail on a tranquil sea, cosmic flash shows
A brilliant flash of radio waves from the distant universe has given a unique glimpse of the gas that lies between galaxies. The flash was captured and analysed by a […]