#Astronomy and Space

Black and white image of a building with a large antenna on the roof

Radar and the birth of radio astronomy in Australia at Collaroy Plateau

Australia Telescope Compact Array

Pulsar surveys and the discovery of the double pulsar

A photograph of the active 190 GHz imaging system

Radio astronomy amplifiers using millimetre wavelength imaging

The total solar eclipse of 30 June 1973

Radio astronomy – observing explosions on the sun

Artist's concept of asteroid mining

Space: the mining frontier

Bruce Thomas attaching a dual-hybrid-mode corrugated-horn in the focus cabin at the Parkes radio telescope in 1968

Antennas for radio telescopes and satellite communications

The Western Australia beam for AUSSAT displayed on a computer screen in 1989

AUSSAT-B and other antenna research that revolutionised the international satellite industry

Parkes telescope during construction

Parkes radio telescope construction