ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . News | ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... A team of astronomers from the UK, USA, Australia, Italy and Canada using the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope in eastern Australia has found a new kind of cosmic object: small, compressed 'neutron stars' that show no activity most of the time but once in a while spit out a single burst of radio waves. ...