Peter Griffin • Aug 25, 2015 •
Stuart Wyithe, University of Melbourne Astronomy is entering an exciting new era of exploration. Extremely large optical telescopes, including the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), which is due to be built in Chile in 2021, will allow studies of stars and galaxies at the dawn of the universe, and will peer at planets similar to ours around distant … Read More
Peter Kerr • Oct 07, 2014 •
Naturally it has escaped the attention of mainstream media… But, the fact is that two Kiwi IT companies are still in, and contributing to, the world’s largest IT project – the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope. (See a press … Continue reading → … Read More
Peter Griffin • Mar 17, 2012 •
A week after Australian newspapers ran reports based on leaked information that South Africa’s bid to host the Square Kilometre Array is favoured over a rival bid from Australia and New Zealand, comes ratification of an EU agreement to partner with African countries on radio astronomy. The adoption by the European Parliament yesterday of Science Capacity … Read More
Peter Griffin • Mar 11, 2012 •
It was a bit much to expect the preliminary decision on who will host the next global “big science” project would remain under wraps. And so the papers in Australia yesterday carried the news that the South African bid for the Square Kilometre Array, a $2.7 billion radio telescope project, is favoured over the Australia-New Zealand bid by … Read More
Aimee Whitcroft • Jul 06, 2010 •
I really, really hate it when events don’t have an online presence. I like broadcasting things. Not to be able to do so easily, particularly when it’s something interesting, is upsetting. I have fitlets of pique thereover. As it were. Anyhoo, on to the point of this post: tomorrow, in … Read More