The ATNF Director, Professor Ron Ekers, has been awarded a Federation Fellowship, one of Australia’s most prestigious research awards. Professor Ekers’ research proposal is titled “A clearer view of the […]

Applications are invited for a Radio Astronomy Support position with the ATNF based at Tidbinbilla. More information.

Summer vacation scholarships are available at the Australia Telescope National Facility and the CSIRO Telecommunications and Industrial Physics for graduate and undergraduate students who have completed three years or more […]

Applications are invited for a systems scientist position at the ATNF, AustraliaÂ’s principal radio astronomical facility. More information.

Australian telescopes have helped provide the clinching evidence that gamma-ray bursts – the biggest bangs in the Universe – are produced when massive stars explode and their cores collapse to […]

On Monday 20 May staff at CSIRO’s Parkes Observatory ­ home of “the Dish” ­ will pack a special delivery for the Urumqi Astronomical Observatory in far western China. It’s […]

The February 2002 edition of the ATNF News is now available online. More information.

This week we have released the new-look central ATNF web site. We hope you find this easier to use and to navigate. Inevitably some of the links on our previous […]

The Australia Telescope National Facility and the Anglo-Australian Observatory were proud to host a visit on the 15th of February by the Federal Minister for Science, the Honorable Peter McGauran, […]

Astronomers have found a weird double-star system – a super-fast spinning pulsar whose gravity has deformed its companion star into a giant red teardrop. The discovery was made by astronomers […]

CSIRO and U.S. telecommunications giant TRW have formed a strategic alliance to develop high-performance gallium arsenide and indium phosphide components for radio astronomy, advanced millimetre-wave sensors and telecommunications systems. More […]