Looking at the radio emissions from distant quasars, which appear to twinkle, researchers from Many Astrophyics have found what they think might be the answer: hairy stars.
First look inside NASA’s new command centre
An exclusive look at NASA’s brand new command centre near Canberra built to facilitate communications between Earth and the first people to walk on Mars.
One woman’s role in designing the world’s largest radio telescope
The Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, is a next-generation radio telescope that will be vastly more sensitive than the best present-day instruments. It will give astronomers remarkable insights into the formation of the early Universe, including the emergence of the first stars, galaxies and other structures. We caught up with research engineer Mia Baquiran to find out more about this amazing new instrument and her role in getting it off the ground and into the skies.
The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder finally hits the big-data highway
After months of running in test-mode, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope is now gathering data at an incredible rate to give us a new look at how our universe works.
The Dish joins global search for new signs of life
Breakthrough Listen — the largest search for extraterrestrial life — has launched today at our Parkes radio telescope, turning its mighty eye on the ‘exo-Earth’ Proxima b.
ATCA reveals white dwarfs, red dwarfs and mystery rays
Observations made by our Australia Telescope Compact Array have provided the ‘coup dé grace’ of evidence in the discovery of a unique pair of stars, proving for the first time that white dwarf stars do emit pulsating radiation.
How CSIRO is turbocharging the world’s largest radio telescopes
We’re turbocharging the world’s largest telescope with a 19-beam receiver, made and built by our engineers.
Dish at Parkes serves up the answer to one of life’s greatest mysteries
Using sensitive radio telescopes, including our very own ‘Dish’ at Parkes, a team of international scientists have for the first time discovered a chiral molecule outside of our solar system.
Solving universal mysteries all in a night’s work for ASKAP
Think you know all there is to know about our newest radio telescope, ASKAP? Think again.