ASKAP Archives - CSIROscope

Our big breakthroughs in 2019

2019 was a big year for us. Before you head off for the end of year break, let’s reflect on the exciting science we brought to you this year.

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A chance encounter with a pulsar

Our scientists accidentally stumbled upon a pulsar (a highly magnetized rotating neutron star). This chance discovery was made thanks to the ASKAP telescope.

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The answer may not be 42: fast radio burst traced to a distant galaxy

In a world first, astronomers using our ASKAP telescope have pinpointed the location of a fast radio burst in the Universe taking us one step closer to solving an astronomical mystery.

Space

Meet our space sifter

Tim Galvin only wants to worry about the ‘cool, interesting’ stuff. Which might explain why he’s working on an algorithm to sift supernovas from Moon dust.

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The search for the source of a mysterious fast radio burst comes relatively close to home

Astronomers think they've identified which galaxy was the source of a blast radio energy, over in a fraction of a second. And it's much closer to us than the others detected, so far.

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Dying, not waving: nearby dwarf galaxy running out of gas

Even though it’s on an astronomical timeline, a close intergalactic neighbour of ours known as the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is slowly dying.

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Explosions in the sky: ASKAP detects 20 new Fast Radio Bursts

It took the world's telescopes 10 years to find approximately 20 FRBs. Using ASKAP, a team of Aussie scientist have been able to find 20 in one year.

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ASKAP helps us see more of our intergalatic neighbour

Everybody likes to know their neighbours, even on a galactic scale. Our new ASKAP telescope has given us the most detailed radio image yet of our closest neighbour, the dwarf galaxy known as the Small Magellanic Cloud.

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Big data (not big rockets) set to propel Australia’s space science

Whatever the future holds for Australia’s space industry, exciting times are ahead, and big data will play a big part.

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German telescope wears Aussie tech

We designed and built a sophisticated receiver for Germany’s Effelsberg telescope.

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Interference kills the radio star finder

How do you power the world's fastest radio telescope in the remote Australian outback with renewable energy when power stations interfere with the radio signals?

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ASKAP telescope speeds up the hunt for new Fast Radio Bursts

It used to take weeks to find any of these mysterious signals from deep in space but when the new telescope started looking it found one within days. Then another.

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