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 […]
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, […]
Vale Bruce Slee
Owen Bruce Slee, one of radio astronomy’s pioneers, died on 18 August at the age of 92, just a day after a workshop held at the University of Sydney to […]
ATOA Upgrades and Virtual Observatory Release
The Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) and the ATOA Users Guide have recently been upgraded to facilitate downloads of large files and large numbers of files, and to provide support […]
Bruce Slee honoured at “Slee-fest” workshop
Bruce Slee is one of the pioneers of radio astronomy and to celebrate his lifetime contribution to the field, the International Astronomical Union has named a planet after him, Minor […]
CASS Undergraduate Vacation Scholarships: Applications Now Open.
Our Undergraduate Vacation Scholarships are run over the Australian summer holidays and offers high achieving and promising undergraduate students the opportunity to collaborate with leading CSIRO scientists in our world […]
Australian researchers develop ultra-accurate synchronisation tech for the SKA
Last week, a team of Australian researchers successfully completed Astronomical Verification of a critical sub-system of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The equipment was built in partnership with the SKA […]