September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
... Apollo lunar programme. A view of the Parkes Radio Telescope in 1969, during its involvement with the the Apollo... role in the rescue of the Apollo 13 crew. While the radio telescope itself is not generally accessible to the public, except on special...
October 2016
The dwarf galaxy problem
... with another galaxy, carving out a hole in the process as the two collided. The Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico - a single dish radio telescope with a dish diameter of 305 m. Another possibility is that the ring-cloud is an extension of the...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... would be combined to form a ‘synthetic aperture’ in space, a tried-and-tested technique that allows multiple radio telescopes to coordinate to resolve signal sources such as Coronal Mass Ejections with improved resolution. Developing technologies...
10 April 2019
Ring of fire around black hole revealed for first time
... have achieved something presumed to be impossible just a generation ago. Breakthroughs in technology and the completion of new radio telescopes over the past decade enabled our team to assemble this new instrument — designed to see the unseeable.”
25 November 2021
European scientists bounced first ever LoRa message off the Moon
...(ESA). To achieve the transmission, the team used the Dwingeloo radio telescope, operated by the CAMRAS foundation in the Netherlands. The radio telescope has a history of being used in amateur radio experiments and is now often used for moon bounces...
05 January 2017
Astronomers pinpoint location of mysterious fast radio bursts
... a single dish telescope to the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), a multi-antenna radio telescope system with the ability...surrounding a supermassive black hole would produce these energetic radio bursts. This latter scenario is perhaps closer to ...
