by Jonathan Nally | Aug 18, 2020 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Telescopes
Above: WA Premier, Mark McGowan, visited Joseph Banks Secondary College to make the announcement of a $16.1m upgrade to school facilities. Image courtesy Joseph Banks Secondary College. PERTH’S JOSEPH BANKS SECONDARY COLLEGE will get a new building featuring a space...
by Jonathan Nally | Aug 10, 2020 | Astronomy, News, Telescopes
Above: The CSIRO’s 64-metre-diameter Parkes radio telescope, located in central NSW. Credit: CSIRO/A. Cherney. AUSTRALIA’S MOST FAMOUS RADIO DISH, the Parkes radio telescope in central NSW, has been added to the official National Heritage List. Construction of the...
by Jonathan Nally | Jul 9, 2020 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Telescopes
ABOVE: The Anglo Australian Telescope at Siding Springs Observatory. Photo: Ángel R. López-Sánchez AUSTRALIA’S INVESTMENT IN ASTRONOMY and its hosting of two of the world’s most powerful telescopes means the country is well placed to contribute to more big...
by Jonathan Nally | May 31, 2020 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Features, News, Telescopes
Above: An artist’s impression of gas swirling into a black hole. The Dynamic REd All-Sky Monitoring Survey (DREAMS) telescope will try to spot infrared radiation from black holes, neutron stars, quasars and many other objects in deep space. A NEW INFRARED...
by Jonathan Nally | Mar 5, 2020 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Telescopes
Above: Just a handful of the more-than 4,000 antennas of the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope in Western Australia. Credit: John Goldsmith A NEW $2 MILLION COMPUTING FACILITY based at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth will crunch the huge amounts of...
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...
