26 February 2018
A Sky Wonderful with Stars – 50 years of modern astronomy on Maunakea
... 1992. Today, there are 13 facilities, including nine visible/IR telescopes, three submillimetre instruments and a radio telescope. The book also looks forward to the Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) which, although officially approved in 2013, has been...
November 2018
Being human in space
... the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope, The Netherlands, have been working since 2013 across the fields of SETI, radio astronomy, neuroscience ... humans’ and, besides hobby astronomers sharing their telescopes with friends and family, many people only know...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
...Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex in Australia and has also worked at the CSIRO’s Parkes Radio Telescope, the Australia Telescope Compact Array and is currently supporting NASA Operation activities at the Canberra complex. Glen’s professional...
03 April 2017
Milky Way black hole search begins
... event horizon surrounding the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy – Sagittarius A*. These two international radio telescopes have now been joined by the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre array (ALMA) to link up and create...
23 July 2021
Astronomers detect a disk where exoplanet moons could be forming
...stellar systems. With around 66 radio telescopes that are capable of detecting faint radio waves given off by tiny ...the team will have to wait until ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), which is currently under construction on Cerro Armazones ...
26 June 2017
Degree options for those seeking a future in the space programme
... and develop ways to use energy rays. Observational astronomers who use telescopes to study their fields of interest or radio astronomers who use radio telescopes. A degree in astronomy would enable you to progress to any of these fields of study...
