The Parkes dish is 60, but it’s still making major scientific breakthroughs
The Parkes dish is 60, but it’s still making major scientific breakthroughs Happy birthday! Decades of discovery John Bolton was appointed the founding director of the telescope. Under his dynamic, decade-long tenure, astronomers made a string of significant discoveries that established the dish as the premier scientific instrument in Australia. Astronomers revealed the immense magnetic field of our Milky Way galaxy. A few months later, the telescope detected quasars, the most distant known objects in the Universe – a discovery that increased the size of the known Universe tenfold....
