Parkes granted status as SKA pathfinder
CSIRO’s iconic Parkes radio telescope has been granted the status of ‘SKA pathfinder’ by the Square Kilometre Array Organisation, on the basis of its role in testing innovation new receiver […]
Quiet up there
A recent experiment by the ASKAP team has shown how phased array feed receivers can be used to mitigate the effect of radio frequency interference. This method effectively allows astronomers […]
Getting busy with real data
In preparation for the start of the ASKAP Early Science Program, the first ASKAP Community Busy Week was held this week at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA). More information.
LIGO makes waves; Australian telescopes follow up
Last month, physicists at LIGO made waves with the announcement that elusive gravitational waves – ripples in space time caused by a violent cosmic event taking place in the distant […]
Bye bye, BETA
In what is a bittersweet milestone for the ASKAP project, the Boolardy Engineering Test Array – or BETA, as it is known – has officially been decommissioned at the Murchison […]
A bright start to 2016 for ASKAP’s renewables
The solar power station for CSIRO’s Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope has been powering ahead at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia throughout January. At the end of 2015, […]
Bonn-bound PAF pops by Parkes
ASKAP receiver technology is about to branch out beyond the MRO, having been recently deployed to the Parkes Observatory for testing. Through an agreement with the Max Planck Institute for […]
Change in CASS Director
After three successful years leading CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Dr Lewis Ball’s term as Director of CASS will come to an end on 17 March. As CASS Director, Lewis […]
CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (CASDA): Version 1.1 release
We advise that version 1.1 of CASDA is now available. This includes several new features for science users. The main changes compared to version 1.0 (released Nov 2015) are: a) […]
Further progress towards SKA intergovernmental organisation
Friday 29 January, Rome, Italy: The second meeting of the preparatory negotiations towards establishing SKA Organisation as an intergovernmental organisation (IGO) regulated by a treaty has just ended in Rome, […]
A bright start to 2016 for ASKAP renewables
Progress on the solar power station for the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope has been powering ahead at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia throughout January. More information.
Media: Biases in the world of science
*Appeared in The Guardian, 9 January 2016* —– When the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, recently announced that his innovation plan would contribute $13m to support greater participation of girls and […]