Radio Telescopes

Featuring in Series 2, Episode 11 – Friday 21st May 2010, 10.30pm on Maori Television.

Warkworth is the home of a very special piece of technology that is part of a massive global science project.  Aoteoroa’s first radio telescope will help answer some of science’s fundamental questions.  It’s part of a big project involving Australia to create a new-generation radio-telescope that would be the most powerful of its type in the world.  We caught up with the man who’s behind the project to find out what the radio telescope is hoping to tell us about the universe and how it all works…

For more information check out:
Institute for Radio Astronomy and Space Research at AUT University http://www.irasr.ac.nz/
SKA project NZ http://www.skanz.org/

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