“The sun never sets on the SKA”
In what has been called “the largest ever gathering of people working on the international SKA project”, some 300 engineers and scientists recently gathered in Fremantle, WA, to progress the […]
Students astonished by stuttering star
Secondary school students in Australia have helped reveal weird, jittery behaviour in a pulsar called PSR J1717-4054. The results of their observations and of follow-up studies are published online in […]
Alcohol test may hold key to life
Alcohol molecules found in a distant galaxy may help to show if a ‘fundamental constant’ of nature is really constant — and if we could only have existed at this […]
New image demonstrates rapid survey capability of ASKAP
An image has been generated with the Boolardy Engineering Test Array (BETA) that covers 50 square degrees of the sky, revealing approximately 2000 sources and demonstrating the rapid survey capability […]
PULSE@Parkes Sessions Oct 214 – Feb 2015 Now Open
There are four new sessions available for schools to take part in our PULSE@Parkes program. These free sessions are open for classes from years 10-12 and provide your students the […]
Steerable beams create flexible ‘footprints’
The flexibility of the ASKAP phased array feed has been demonstrated by a variety of BETA observations using different shaped ‘beam footprints’. BETA has been used to image a galaxy […]
ASKAP News: Mk II PAF pre-production underway
While testing and installation of the Mk II PAF is underway at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, back at the CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science lab in Sydney, pre-production of the […]
ASKAP News: Mk II PAF lifted on to ASKAP antenna
The first full-size second generation (Mk II) phased array feed receiver was lifted on to ASKAP Antenna 29 at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory yesterday, marking a new milestone in the […]
CASS 2014 Undergraduate Vacation Scholarship Applications Now Open
The 2014/15 Vacation Scholarship Program is designed to provide students with the opportunity to work on real-world problems in a leading R&D organisation. Participation in the Vacation Scholarship Program has […]
Tests on new ASKAP PAF indicate impressive system temperature
The first results from ground-based system tests on the full-size second generation (Mk II) phased array feed receiver have indicated impressive system temperature across the ASKAP band. These preliminary results […]
ATNF telescope availability – update on the impact of funding reductions
The direction CSIRO will take in response to the recent funding reduction for radio astronomy is becoming clearer. There will be impacts to the availability of ATNF facilities both immediately […]
System tests underway on Mk II ASKAP PAF at the MRO
Initial ground-based system tests have been run on the first full-size, second generation (Mk II) ASKAP phased array feed receiver at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia. More information.