CAASTRO Telescope Tour to Siding Spring Observatory

On Saturday 11 August, the first day of the 2012 National Science Week, teaching staff of Dubbo College Senior Campus participated in a CAASTRO-organised ‘Telescope Tour’ to Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran. While news about the Square Kilometre Array...

MWA display at WA Museum in Geraldton

The Western Australian Museum – Geraldton, in collaboration with the Centre for All-sky Astrophysics, is offering the Mid West community a first-hand look at the Murchison Widefield Array technology set to put the region on the international map. WA Museum – Geraldton...

CAASTRO is hiring!

CAASTRO is hiring! CAASTRO Postdoctoral Fellow in Pulsars and Fast Transients (Level A, two years) application deadline 31 July 2012; please contact Matthew Bailes for more information CAASTRO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow in Pulsars and Fast Transients (Level B, four...

CAASTRO helps “Communicating Space”!

It’s one of the hottest topics in science at the moment – Space. As seen by the recent public interest in the Square Kilometre Array bid and visit to Australia by astronaut Buzz Aldrin, people are hungry for more information on life, the Universe and everything. So...

Presentations by Perth postgraduate students

Morag Scrimgeour (PhD), ICRAR-UWA: “Testing Dark Energy with Galaxy Velocities” Tao Hong (PhD), NAOC / ICRAR-UWA: “The 2MASS Tully-Fisher Survey: Mapping the Mass in the Universe” Steven Murray (PhD), ICRAR-UWA: “Testing the CDM model...