Keep watching the skies: Australia’s premier scientific instrument is no museum piece
When the CSIRO’s 64-metre Parkes Radio Telescope was commissioned in 1961, it was only expected to operate for 20 years. ...
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Celebrate World Heritage Day with these heritage industrial sites across Australia
The International Day for Monuments and Sites, better known as World Heritage Day, is celebrated annually on 18 April. Here ...
Sixty years on, the Parkes dish is still making breakthroughs
The CSIRO’s 64-metre Parkes Radio Telescope was commissioned on October 31 1961. At the time it was the most advanced ...
National Heritage status for The Dish, an Australian engineering icon
Australia’s most famous telescope has been awarded National Heritage status.
