We’ve covered the SKA previously, looking specifically at how the NBN and associated fibre technologies are helping in Australia’s bid for the world’s largest telescope. I sat down with Dr Brian Boyle from the CSIRO to dig into the specifics of Australia’s SKA bid and its importance to Australian science. Here’s the first part of that interview.
The CSIRO Parkes Observatory gets its own Google Doodle today. Sure, it’s not as fancy as, say, the Jim Henson or Freddie Mercury ones, but it recognises a key bit of Australian scientific history as the dish turns 50.
First they gave us a high-res tour of Mars – now Microsoft has made the largest and clearest night-sky map ever. It’s a terapixel image: 1,000,000,000,000 pixels.
