Monster star blast ‘brighter than full Moon’
Radio telescopes of CSIRO and the University of Sydney, and others in Europe, India and the USA, have been watching the aftermath of one of the most stupendous cosmic explosions […]
CSIRO telescopes help rescue Titan experiment
CSIRO’s radio telescopes and others in Australia, China, Japan and the USA have revealed how the wind speeds on Saturn’s moon Titan vary with altitude—and have turned a disappointment into […]
Magnetic mystery solved
Magnetars – stars with magnetic fields a thousand million million times stronger than Earth’s – are formed when some of the biggest stars in the cosmos explode, says a team […]
Charlene Heisler Prize Launched for School Students
The Charlene Heisler Prize is open to students across Australia in Years 8 -10. Working individually or in groups students write a series of webpages tackling this year’s theme; How […]
Australian telescopes ready for historic space mission
12 January 2005 Radio telescopes of CSIRO and the University of Tasmania stand ready to follow the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe as it plummets through the clouds of Saturn’s […]
ATNF Telescopes to Take Part in Huygens Space-Probe Experiment
On 14 January 2005, radio telescopes of CSIRO and other Australian institutions will help pinpoint the location of the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe as it plunges through the clouds […]
Workshops for Victorian Physics Teachers
Date: Wednesday 9 February 2005 Location: Monash University, Clayton, VIC Our Education Officer, Rob Hollow will be running two workshops at the STAV & AIP VCE Physics Teachers’ Conference in […]
Double pulsar discovery makes Science’s ‘top ten’ of 2004
The discovery of the first-known double pulsar system, made with CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope, has been named by the journal ‘Science’ as one of the top ten breakthroughs of 2004. […]
Australian telescopes to take part in Huygens space-probe experiment
On 14 January 2005, radio telescopes of CSIRO and other Australian institutions will help pinpoint the location of the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe as it plunges through the clouds […]
Australia Telescope Online Archive released
We are pleased to announce the public release of the Australia Telescope Online Archive. This provides access to the Australia Telescope Compact Array archive data files (uncalibrated) for observations taken […]
Employment Opportunity: Technical Officers (two positions)
Two Electronics Technical Officers are required to assemble, maintain, test and install radioastronomy instrumentation. Applicants must be able to demonstrate capabilities that would allow them to work effectively in a […]
“Cosmology in the Classroom” Teacher Workshops
Date: 27 November 2004 Location: UTS Sydney, STANSW Annual Conference. Our Education Officer, Robert Hollow, will be presenting two workshop sessions on the effective teaching of Cosmology concepts at the […]