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Radio Astronomy in the Australian Outback
Radio Astronomy in the Australian Outback
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30 minutes
Released:
Mar 25, 2013
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Podcast episode
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The SKA will soon be the world's most sensitive radio telescope, able to view some of the most distant objects ever seen. In a special edition of Naked Astronomy this month, we follow Perth-based astronomer Kirsten Gottschalk on a visit to one of the two sites where it will be built, hundreds of kilometres from civilisation in the Western Australian outback. Kirsten also catches up with progress on the two precursor instruments - the Murchison Widefield Array and the Australian SKA Pathfinder - which are already being constructed on the site. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Released:
Mar 25, 2013
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