Astrophysics is the attempt to understand the physical processes at work in the Universe. It deals with questions such as, how do stars and galaxies form and evolve, and how are the components of a galaxy related to each other?

The Australia Telescope National Facility is a Division of CSIRO that operates and develops the Australia Telescope as a national research facility.

An international team of researchers has debunked one of astronomy’s long held beliefs about how stars are formed, using a set of galaxies found with CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope.

Researchers have witnessed a star being transformed into an object that spins at almost 600 times a second using telescopes in the USA and the Netherlands, and CSIRO’s Parkes telescope in Australia.

Find out about saving the world in this free lecture for high school science teachers and senior science students in New South Wales.

The HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS) project gave us the first ever view of the Local Universe unobscured by galactic foreground stars and dust and mapped out the whole sky out to distances of about 150 megaparsecs.

An international team led by CSIRO astronomers is mapping the hydrogen gas in the Milky Way in unprecedented detail. This will help them learn more about how our galaxy formed.

CSIRO astronomers, using the Australia Telescope, have the skills to observe and understand cosmic objects ranging from forming stars to distant galaxies.

CSIRO’s Dr Naomi McClure-Griffiths has been dubbed the 'galactic octopus wrestler' after discovering a new spiral arm of the Milky Way and in this video podcast, she describes how it feels to uncover the secrets of the Galaxy. (3:10)

As a member of the project team working on the Square Kilometre Array, Mr Aaron Chippendale is bringing us a step closer to learning the secrets of life, the universe and everything.

As International SKA Project Engineer, CSIRO astronomer and engineer Dr Peter Hall is helping Australia play a leadership role in the development of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the next generation radio telescope.

In this Double Helix Science Club activity you'll learn how to make your own black hole clock and about different ways to keep time.

This activity from CSIRO's Double Helix Club provides instructions instructions on how to create your own investigation into meteorite craters.