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ASKAP welcomes ministerial visit to MRO

On Saturday 1 March, the ‘red carpet’ (a.k.a red sand) was rolled out at our Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in […]

Wormhole Wednesday: Galactic simulations with ‘Galaxy’

You might remember the operational launch of the new supercomputer at the iVEC Pawsey Centre in Perth a few months ago. […]

It’s SKA design time

We’ve talked about the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) before. It’ll be the world’s largest radio telescope, will be located in […]

The votes are in: Seeing Stars SKA art prize

The poet E.F. Weisslitz once said “Art is Science in Love”, and on this blog we’ve seen the various ways […]

Starstruck at the Murchison Astrofest

As part of this year’s Australian National Science Week, astronomy buffs travelled to remote Western Australia from near and far […]

The question of astrobiology

By Lisa Harvey-Smith “So – what do you do?” The question dreaded by astronomers seeking a quiet social evening. When […]

CSIRO opens Observatory office

Yesterday, 4 July 2013, we officially opened our newest office space for CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, in Western Australia. […]

“We are ultraordinary”

By Lisa Harvey-Smith (CSIRO ASKAP Project Scientist) It took the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) teams from Australia–New Zealand and Southern […]