#Parkes

Where are the missing gravitational waves?

We’ve been looking for the gravitational waves theorised by Einstein for 11 years using our Parkes radio telescope. By training our sights on a distant pulsar we hoped to detect signs of those gravitational waves, here’s what we found.

Dwarf galaxies feel the blast from larger neighbours

Dwarf galaxies are the most abundant galaxies in the universe. Yet understanding how these systems behave in galaxy group environments is still a mystery.

The hunt for ET will boost Australian astronomy

We've signed a multi-million dollar agreement to use our 64 metre Parkes radio telescope in the quest to search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

Parkes Radio Telescope

Are we really alone?

Did you fall in love with ET? Or dream of having Mr Spock over to dinner? Popular culture, and science fiction, have filled our minds with a berth of extra-terrestrial characters because we want to believe there is more to this Universe than the humble limits of our Earth. Are we alone? We're part of a new global initiative that seeks to answer that question.

Perytons: finding our ghost in the machine

What do the smell of lasagna, hunger pangs and a cosmic radio signal have in common? We discovered the strange connection when we went on the hunt to discover our ghost in the machine at The Dish telescope this week.

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 […]

Viva Parkes-Vegas!

Reblogged from CSIRO News

Viva Parkes-Vegas!

In the second week of January each year, Parkes marks the birthday of Elvis Presley with a massive festival celebrating everything Elvis.

Dr Kameya Osamu from NAOJ launching the PULSE@Parkes session at Sendai Astronomical Observatory.

PULSE@Parkes in Japan 2014, Part 2

Following our wonderful time in Kagoshima the PULSE@Parkes team headed back to Honshu for the rest of our busy tour. Next […]

Dr Ryan Shannon giving a talk on pulsar science at Kagoshima University.

PULSE@Parkes in Kagoshima

Kagoshima, a city of 605,000 people on the southern part of the island of Kyushu sits opposite Sakurajima, one of […]

Students at NAOJ Mizusawa in the 2013 tour.

PULSE@Parkes in Japan 2014 Tour

Following the success of the 2013 tour our PULSE@Parkes team is heading back to Japan for another series of PULSE@Parkes sessions. […]

Asteroids pound pulsar

Pulsars (short for pulsating stars) are a fairly extreme phenomenon in our Universe. Created after large stars turn supernova, pulsars […]