The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder in the Western Australian desert.
CSIRO
Do all big black holes in very massive galaxies emit radio waves? We used the latest radio telescopes to find out.
Artist’s impression of a record-breaking Fast Radio Burst, passing from a distant host galaxy to the Milky Way.
ESO/M. Kornmesser
A record-breaking discovery of an extreme ‘fast radio burst’ opens a window into the early universe.
Jayanne English (U. Manitoba) / N. Deg (Queen’s U.) / The WALLABY team / CSIRO / ASKAP / NAOJ / Subaru Telescope
New ASKAP images reveal a giant hydrogen ring around the spiral galaxy NGC 4632.
ASKAP multiple landscape backview.
CSIRO
One of the few examples of a fast radio burst and the slow-moving, star forming gas in its origin galaxy has been linked together – thanks to observations from a CSIRO telescope.
ASKAP.
CSIRO
For years, astronomers have been detecting incredibly powerful pulses from the cosmos, without a confirmed source. Recent advances in astronomy are getting us closer to the solution.
Combined images from the ASKAP and Parkes radio telescopes.
R. Kothes (NRC) and the PEGASUS team
Our galaxy should be full of traces of dead stars. Until now, we have found surprisingly few of these supernova remnants, but a new telescope collaboration is changing that.
Jurik Peter/Shutterstock
Over 1 million light-years end to end, the pressurised jet shoots away from a central black hole in a nearby galaxy.
CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Processing/Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre
Radio telescopes produce enormous amounts of data, and we need immense computing power to produce even a single image like this one.
Some of the MeerKAT’s 64 dishes, which astronomers use to collect huge amounts of data.
© South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO)
Complementary science will be at the heart of the Square Kilometre Array.
Jayanne English using data from MeerKAT and the Dark Energy Survey
Next-generation radio telescopes unravel the mysteries of ghostly circles in the sky.
Sebastian Zentilomo/University of Sydney
Fluctuating radio waves that appear to come from near the heart of the Milky Way are a new puzzle for astronomers.
Jayanne English/EMU/Dark Energy Survey
Australia’s ASKAP radio telescope probes the Universe more deeply than ever before, revealing unseen features of the cosmos.
Panorama of the spectacular night sky over some of the ASKAP antennas at the MRO.
Credit: Alex Cherney/CSIRO
Visitors are discouraged from the remote desert location where powerful telescopes are listening to the universe.
Ray Norris
A collaboration between Australian and German scientists gives an unrivalled view of the structure of the Universe.
Artist’s depiction of a flare-coronal mass ejection event on Proxima Centauri.
Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav)
We observed a powerful flare and a huge burst of radio waves from our nearest stellar neighbour, Proxima Centauri, indicating violent space weather around the star.
Bärbel Koribalski / ASKAP
When astronomers started using the new ASKAP radio telescope, they discovered mysterious circular blobs of unknown size and distance in the sky.
CSIRO
Researchers have spotted millions of galaxies in the most detailed radio survey of the southern sky ever conducted. It has smashed previous records for survey speed.
The 22-metre radio dishes of the ATCA telescope are 30 years old but still work just fine.
John Masterson
An upgrade for the Australia Telescope Compact Array will enable major new discoveries about the universe
A view from CSIRO’s Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope antenna 29, with the phased array feed receiver in the centre, Southern Cross on the left and the Moon on the right.
CSIRO/Alex Cherney
For the first time scientists have located the home galaxy of a one-off fast radio burst. Here’s how they did it – and what they learned about the galaxy.
Central antennas of the Australia Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder.
Alex Cherney/CSIRO
We still don’t know what causes these mysterious Fast Radio Bursts deep in the universe, but we’ve detected a whole new batch of them.