Tag: Radio astronomy
Did a giant radio telescope in China just discover aliens? Not so FAST…
Image: Liu Xu / Xinhua / AP
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
– Carl Sagan (Cosmos, 1980)
This phrase is the standard that astronomers will be applying to a curious...
60 years after it first gazed at the skies, the Parkes dish is still making breakthroughs
Image: CSIRO, Author provided
The CSIRO’s 64-metre Parkes Radio Telescope was commissioned on October 31 1961. At the time it was the most advanced radio...