Silence please! Why radio astronomers need things quiet in the middle of a WA desert
- Written by Kate Chow, Research Scientist, SKA Site & Infrastructure, CSIRO
Panorama of the spectacular night sky over some of the ASKAP antennas at the MRO. Credit: Alex Cherney/CSIRO, Author providedA remote outback station about 800km north of Perth in Western Australia is one of the best places in the world to operate telescopes that listen for radio signals from space.
It’s the site of CSIRO’s Murchison...





