CSIRO's Research Is Focused On The Following:

The Australia Telescope Compact Array
The Australia Telescope Compact Array

- CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array is one of the world’s leading radio telescopes.

CSIRO's Parkes Radio telescope
CSIRO's Parkes Radio telescope

- Star of the film ‘The Dish’, the Parkes radio telescope has been at the forefront of astronomy for over forty years. It has discovered more than two-thirds of the 1,700 known pulsars.

CSIRO's Mopra radio telescope
CSIRO's Mopra radio telescope

- Specialising in studying molecules in space.

The Australia Telescope National Facility sits within CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS), and operates and develops the Australia Telescope as a national research facility - that is, a facility that can be used by researchers from institutions around Australia and all over the world.

ATNF telescopes are regularly linked with radio telescopes around Australia and overseas for long-distance experiments. Such linking is called Very Long Baseline Interferometry or VLBI.

Show Operating our radio telescopes Index