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Parkes radio telescope added to National Heritage List

Parkes radio telescope added to National Heritage List

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...
Computing boost for Australian radio telescopes

Computing boost for Australian radio telescopes

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...
Upgrades will boost Australian radio telescopes

Upgrades will boost Australian radio telescopes

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...
Supercomputer blitzes data in lead up to SKA

Supercomputer blitzes data in lead up to SKA

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...

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