Australian and Korean telescopes connected for detailed view of the Universe
CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) is extending into exciting new territory to provide some of the very highest resolutions achievable on Earth by combining with other telescopes at high […]
ASKAP wins national innovation award
CSIRO’s Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope has taken home the overall prize in the Australian Innovation Challenge Awards, with judges recognising the telescope as “one of those advances that keeps […]
ASKAP streams in to Supercomputing 2014
This week, delegates of the Supercomputing 2014 (SC14) conference in New Orleans had a chance to visit the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) and chat with ASKAP team members via a […]
Industry collaboration leading to big things
NB: the following information may not be up-to-date but is included for historical interest. 14 November 2014 Through the ASKAP project, CSIRO is working with Puzzle Precision, a a quality, […]
Call for Proposals for 2015APR semester
Proposals for observing time are now invited for the 2015APR semester for the: * Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) * Parkes 64-m telescope * Mopra 22-m telescope * Tidbinbilla 70-m […]
ASKAP user community meets to workshop ideas
Members of the ASKAP Science Survey Teams and other potential ASKAP users met this week at the Marsfield headquarters of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science in a one-day workshop to […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]