PULsar Student Explorations at Parkes Pulse@Parkes is a new
initiative that brings together school students and professional
research astronomers in to a project centred around a current
hot topic in science. Under the guidance of the ATNF
astronomers, students will get the opportunity to control the
famous Parkes telescope with modern remote observing technology.
The focus of the students observations, will the be post-
supernova remnants of dead stars, known as pulsars. What makes
this project so unique, is that the data collected by the
students can be used by the astronomers for real research. Of
particular interest to the ATNF, is using the data to track the
evolution of the pulsars over the lifetime of the project.
Pulse@Parkes is among the first projects in the CSIRO and
Australia, to bring school students and professional astronomers
together for real research.