Professor Warrick Couch new AAO Director

Announcing Professor Couch’s appointment today Minister for Science and Research, Senator Chris Evans, said that he was well suited to leading the observatory’s work. “Professor Couch is one of Australia’s leading astronomers and...

Congratulations to Chris Blake, winner of the 2013 Pawsey Medal!

The Australian Academy of Science today announced the 2013 winners of its prestigious annual awards for scientific excellence. Honorific awards are presented to career researchers for life-long achievements and to outstanding early-career researchers under the age of...

The SPARCS Working Group streamlines efforts towards SKA surveys

In a time when precursor instruments to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) from all over the world are coming online and start generating data, the recently founded SKA PAthfinder Radio Continuum Survey Working Group will make sure that the radio-astronomical community...

Australian low-frequency precursor ready for SKA Phase 1 science

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is an interferometric radio telescope operating at low radio frequencies (80-300 MHz), composed of 128 aperture arrays (‘tiles’) and located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia. The instrument...

First microquasar outside of our Galaxy found

  A new paper by Matthew Middleton (previously at the University of Durham, now University of Amsterdam) and his large international team of co-authors has been published in Nature, bringing together X-ray and radio observations of a source in our neighbouring galaxy,...