Posts by Gabby Russell

A radio antenna at night, showing a yellow graphic line spiralling into the dish from a flash of light in space; representative of receiving the polarised signal from the new 'fast radio burst' detected by CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope.

Cosmic radio burst caught red-handed

News this week that astronomers using our Parkes radio telescope have detected a short, sharp flash of radio waves from […]

The full Moon, rusty red in colour, and dark sky

Great night for a red Moon

Next Wednesday, 8 October, there’ll be a fabulous reason to stop what you’re doing, grab your camera and look up. […]

Five white telescope dishes on a bright, sunny day

Alcohol points to something fundamental

Australian astronomers Simon Ellingsen (University of Tasmania) and our own Shari Breen, and their international collaborators, have discovered the first class […]

In the foreground a woman stands with her hands on her hips, there are large, while telescope antennas in the background.

The Pleiades Awards: towards gender equity

The Women in Astronomy Chapter of the Astronomical Society of Australia is holding its annual workshop in Canberra this week. One […]

Five people on stage: one standing and two seated on each of two lounge chairs.

Weekend with the stars

National Science Week has just wrapped up for another year. One of the week’s final events was a special astronomy […]

Bright-star-like points, and swirls of red and blue gas, on a dark background

8 stunning sky shots win David Malin Awards 2014

Swirling dust and star-forming gas, solar explosions and dancing dishes. These are among the eight photographs and videos that have won […]

A rock formation that looks like a bridge, and a tree, in the foreground, and the starry night sky at the top of the image

Catching stars

The stars look so vibrant that you could just reach out, catch them and put them in your pocket. But […]

Black background with a mosaic of colourful images depicting the types of science to be done with the Square Kilometre Array.

Radio astronomy: the next generation

Game changing, fascinating, exciting, inspiring. There was no shortage of positive adjectives used to describe the science that will be […]

Four maps showing the galaxy Circinus at different wavelengths; on the far left is a multi-coloured swirling image on a black background; second from left is a blue swirl on a black background; second from right is a red swirl on a black background; on the far right is a green swirl on a black background.

Revealing Circinus’ hidden beauty

The natural world – from the internal structure of cells to enormous galaxies far, far away – is astoundingly beautiful. […]

A black background with a small white dot in the centre and two large colourful (red, blue, green) areas in the two right and bottom left corners

Universal Year of the Swan

When you think of a swan you might imagine a graceful bird with a long, curved neck gently gliding across […]

Five white radio telescope dishes point to the night sky, the dishes are illuminated

Are you ready to be a radio astronomy detective?

At the end of last year we brought you a new citizen science program: Radio Galaxy Zoo. Now, five months […]

Star trails - bright concentric circles in the night sky - with a dome-shaped building in the foreground.

ASKAP spins it right round, baby

Can you move your ear to your shoulder? Maybe you can’t make it the whole way but you can at […]