AUSTRALIA – NEW ZEALAND SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY SITE IS ALREADY PRODUCING WORLD-CLASS ASTROPHYSICS
April 17, 2012CSIRO’s Murchison Radioastronomy Observatory (MRO), located in remote Western Australia, is the site proposed by Australia and New Zealand to host the high-density core of the multi-billion dollar Square Kilometre Array (SKA).
AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL SCIENCE MINISTER DROPS IN TO ICRAR
March 20, 2012Senator Chris Evans, Australia’s Minister for science, visited The University of Western Australia node of ICRAR along with UWA’s new Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Johnson.
GEARING UP FOR DATA DELUGE FROM WORLD’S BIGGEST RADIO TELESCOPE
March 6, 2012The amount of computer data generated by the entire world in a whole year will need to be stored in a single day for the world’s most powerful telescope − the SKA.