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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
CSIRO calls for Expressions of Interest in purchasing time on its radio astronomy facilities
CSIRO is seeking Expressions of Interest (EoI) from Australian and international research institutes or from other organisations that see genuine potential in the purchase of time on one or more […]
Search for ET underway with Parkes radio telescope
Breakthrough Listen, the 10-year, $100-million astronomical search for intelligent life beyond Earth launched in 2015 by Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking has announced its first observations using CSIRO’s […]
Welcoming Dr Douglas Bock as our new Director of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science
Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that, following an international search, Dr Douglas Bock has been appointed Director of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, and Director of the Australia […]
First VLBI with two phased-array feeds
In a world first, CSIRO has shown that high-resolution observations, a technique called ‘very long baseline interferometry’ VLBI, can be made using two phased-array feeds (PAFs). The CSIRO-designed PAFs are […]
First gamma-ray binary outside our Galaxy
The ATNF’s Compact Array has helped to confirm the discovery of the first gamma-ray binary in another galaxy, which is also the most luminous one ever seen. The dual-star system, […]