by Jonathan Nally | Feb 4, 2020 | Astronomy, Planets, Telescopes
Above: NEID team members installing a large prism into the spectrometer. NEID should have three times the precision of previous radio velocity spectrometers, enabling it to discover more Earth-mass exoplanets. Courtesy the NEID team. ASTRONOMERS HOPE A NEW...
by Jonathan Nally | Jan 28, 2020 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Telescopes
Above: CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope is to be equipped with a new receiver system, called ‘cryoPAF,’ which will triple the telescope’s field of view. Image courtesy CSIRO. TWO OF THE CSIRO’S RADIO TELESCOPE FACILITIES — Parkes and the Australia Telescope Compact...
by Jonathan Nally | Nov 29, 2019 | Astronomy, News, Telescopes
Above: Museums Victoria staff and volunteers with the Great Melbourne Telescope in the Pumping Station at Scienceworks in Spotswood. Every Wednesday since 2008, volunteers have gathered to painstakingly restore one of 19th-century Melbourne’s most remarkable...
by Jonathan Nally | Oct 23, 2019 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Telescopes
Above: A simulation of galaxies in the early Universe, as generated by the Summit supercomputer. Courtesy ASTRO 3D. Researchers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Perth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US and Shanghai...
by Jonathan Nally | Sep 29, 2019 | Amateur astronomy, Features, News, Telescopes
Above: The domes of the McNamara-Saunders Astronomical Teaching Telescope 2 at Mount Stromlo Observatory. Image courtesy MSATT. High school students in the ACT are now the envy of their peers in other parts of the country, following the opening on September 25 of an...
by Jonathan Nally | Aug 5, 2019 | Astronomy, Planets, Telescopes
Queensland’s only professional research observatory for astronomy teaching and research training, the University of Southern Queensland’s Mount Kent Observatory, is playing a leading role in NASA’s new planet-finding space mission. The MINERVA-Australis facility at...
