Wildflowers in the Sky is an ASISTM project linking ATNF and other partner organisations with five schools in the Mid West region of Western Australia. Students are engaged by hands-on […]

Our Education Officer will be presenting workshop sessions for Primary and Secondary teachers at both STAVCON at La Trobe University, Melbourne, 23 -24 November and at the STANSW Annual Conference, […]

Australia and South Africa have been short-listed as the countries to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a giant next-generation radio telescope being developed by scientists in 17 countries. The […]

ASPO Newsletter No. 8: Latest milestones for the NTD and SKAMP; new appointments and SKA job opportunities in WA More information.

Astronomers have used a pair of pulsars orbiting each other, found with CSIROÂ’s Parkes telescope in 2003, to show that EinsteinÂ’s theory of general relativity is correct to within 0.05% […]

Latest Australian SKA Industry Newsletter is now available More information.

We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.1 of the ATNF Spectral Analysis Package (ASAP). This software is intended to be used for analysis of spectral line observations […]

This special issue of the ASPO newsletter gives an overview of SKA-related projects in Australia and New Zealand. More information.

The ATNF requires an assistant with a science component to their education, familiarity with computing, use of internet resources and preferably an interest in astronomy, for approximately 12-15 hours per […]

We have great pleasure in announcing that Dr Dave DeBoer has been appointed as the new Assistant Director at the ATNF, leading the xNTD and SKA Phase 1 Theme. Dave […]

A US-Australian research team found that a “magnetar” – a kind of star with the strongest magnetic fields known in the Universe – is giving off extraordinary radio pulses, which […]

The ATNF has a position available as part of the team working on the development of the xNTD computer capabilities. More information.