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16 Sep 2025
Thanks to everyone who came to our Australia Telescope Users Committee open meeting today!
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2 Sep 2025
Registrations are now open for our next Australia Telescope User Committee meeting (ATUC). ATUC is a chance to discuss issues that impact users of the ATNF.
16 September, online and in-person in Sydney.
Register: forms.office.com/r/hdP8Qspix…
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2 Sep 2025
A draft agenda for the Open Session has now been posted on the ATUC webpage, and details for hybrid participation will be made available to registered attendees closer to the event:
atnf.csiro.au/about-atnf/gov…
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27 Aug 2025
The @URSI_Radio Asia-Pacific radio science conference was held last week in Sydney, with a strong #CSIRO presence. Wonderful to have this event in Australia, with 600 delegates from over 40 countries! Thanks to all involved, who made it a highlight of the radio-science calendar.
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CSIRO_ATNF retweeted
In our vision for Australian astronomy, the nation reaps the rewards from excellence in fundamental science, innovative technology, and industry partnership.
Read the plan: science.org.au/astroplan2026
🎨 This artwork, by Noeleen Hamlett, is part of the Cosmic Echoes: Shared Sky Indigenous Art Exhibition, which is an SKAO initiative, in collaboration with SARAO, CSIRO and the Wajarri Yamaji Aboriginal Corporation.
ALT Promotional artwork for Astronomy Decadal Plan 2026-2035, featuring a stylized radio telescope against a vibrant cosmic background, designed by Nooloorn Hamlett. This artwork is part of the Cosmic Shared Sky Indigenous Art Exhibition, in collaboration with CSIRO and the Wajarri Yamatji Aboriginal Corporation.
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8 Jul 2025
The @AstroSocAus honours six astronomers at its Annual Scientific Meeting in Adelaide this week, including our Dr Joshua Preston Pritchard - winner of the Emerging Leaders in Astronomy Software Development Prize.
Read about all the winners: scienceinpublic.com.au/media…
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25 Jun 2025
Our newest newsletter is now out!
Get some tips on keeping proposals anonymous, see a snapshot of what it takes to keep Murriyang running for more than 60 years and discover how a new Sydney ferry is connected to our astronomy history.
csiro.au/en/Newsletters/ATNF…
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10 Jun 2025
One of the first radio astronomers, Ruby Payne-Scott, was recently recognised with a ferry named in her honour! Read more about Ruby and how she made waves at CSIRO:
csiro.au/en/news/All/Article…
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CSIRO_ATNF retweeted
A new Sydney ferry has been named in honour of Ruby Payne-Scott—an Australian pioneer in radio physics and astronomy, and outspoken advocate for women’s rights.
At the launch ceremony on Sydney Harbour at Barangaroo Wharf, Professor Nalini Joshi AO FAA (@monsoon0)—a world-renowned mathematician and recipient of the Academy’s Ruby Payne-Scott Medal—reflected on Ruby’s groundbreaking contributions to radio astronomy and the discrimination she faced as Australia’s first female radio astronomer. The ferry’s naming stands as both a proud tribute to Ruby’s excellence and perseverance, and a catalyst for conversations about women and girls in STEM.
Learn more: science.org.au/news-and-even…
📸 1. Prof Joshi FAA speaking at the ferry naming ceremony on Sydney Harbour.
2. Prof Joshi with Fiona Hall, daughter of Ruby Payne-Scott and prominent Australian artist.
3. The Sydney Opera House seen from onboard the Ruby Payne-Scott ferry.
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2 Jun 2025
Astronomy's newest mysterious object, the long period radio transient, has been discovered to have a matching X-ray signal for the first time. Read more about our involvement: atnf.csiro.au/news/long-peri…
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2 Jun 2025
Congratulations to the team for this amazing discovery!
28 May 2025
🗞️ Detected a transient object emitting pulses in both radio waves and X-rays
🔭 This is the first time long-period transients have been detected in X-rays. It was detected with @CSIRO_ATNF's ASKAP radio telescope and NASA's @chandraxray.
➡️shorturl.at/ulslb
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10 Apr 2025
Recent research led by our astronomer @jayender_singh has changed our understanding of the Milky Way's inner structure. This part of the galaxy is notoriously hard to study, but these new insights are redefining the shape of our home galaxy:
iopscience.iop.org/article/1…
ALT Our proposed model showing X1-orbits range about the Galactic bar (represented by the area enclosed by yellow ellipses tracing the orbits of stars about the Galactic Bar overplotted on a gas surface-density simulation of the Milky Way. The Sun (white circle) is at the top. The colour bar on the right indicates surface density.
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9 Apr 2025
Professor Lister Staveley-Smith has been appointed Chair of the #ATNF Steering Committee. The ATSC provides advice on @CSIRO's ongoing delivery of radio astronomy capabilities for the nation and appoints the ATNF user and time allocation committees.
ALT Professor Lister Staveley-Smith smiles at the camera. He wears a dark shirt and glasses
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9 Apr 2025
Outgoing Chair Professor Tara Murphy was warmly thanked by ATNF Director Dr Douglas Bock, who acknowledged Professor Murphy’s strategic guidance, her insightful leadership and the rich experience using ATNF instruments she brought to the role.
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9 Apr 2025
This announcement was made as part of our Australia Telescope User Committee open meeting, happening now.
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27 Mar 2025
A reminder that registrations for our Australia Telescope Users Committee meeting (9 April) close tomorrow.
You can register via our form: forms.office.com/r/pNSm1rcyX…
📸Murriyang, our Parkes radio telescope. Credit: Alex Cherney
ALT Big telescope dish points into a starry sky
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27 Mar 2025
An agenda for the meeting will be posted on the ATUC webpage, and details for online participation will be made available to registered attendees closer to the event.
atnf.csiro.au/about-atnf/gov…
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18 Mar 2025
Congratulations to our SKA-Low colleagues!
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3 Mar 2025
The Infinite Women podcast met with our astronomer Dr Elizabeth Mahony, to discuss and celebrate one of the world's first radio astronomers, Ruby Payne-Scott. Listen in:
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