The Dish

The Dish  On the school holidays we ( ScienceKid,  ScienceDad, ScienceMum and I ( ScienceSis ) ) went on a road trip. We stopped on the way home to look at the Dish. The Dish is one of the six CSIRO’s radio telescopes. The Dish’s dish is 64 meters across. They use the Dish to find…

Square Kilometre Array

The Square Kilometre Array is a project to build the worlds largest and most sensitive radio telescope, in remote Australia and in Africa.  Instead of one big antenna, they plan to use thousands of smaller linked antennae. Here is an artist’s impression of what it might look like (credit: CSIRO). Read more about it here:…