Phil Plait, the creator of Bad Astronomy, is an astronomer, lecturer, and author. After ten years working on Hubble Space Telescope and six more working on astronomy education, he struck out on his own as a writer. He's written two books, dozens of magazine articles, and 12 bazillion blog articles. He is a skeptic and fights the abuse of science, but his true love is praising the wonders of real science.

The original BA site (with the Moon Hoax debunking, movie reviews, and all that) can be found here.

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[Personal note: With a hurricane bearing down on the US, I dithered over posting this now... but maybe some of you good folks could use more Moments of Calm.]

Astronomy PhD student Pter Ppics sent me a note about a time lapse video he made at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on La Palma in the Canary Islands. Ive been to this observatory, attending a meeting there many years ago. Its a place of incredible beauty, so I was eager to see his video, and when I watched it I was thrilled to see it was even better than I hoped. Here is Mercator: Close to the Heavens. Make sure you set it to hi-def and full screen.

Many time lapse videos now use a small motor-driven rig to move the camera very slowly as it takes the pictures, but that limits how long a sequence you can shoot. Pter made two choices here: to use a steady tripod which allows longer shots, and to pick a frame rate that accentuates the magnificent grace of the motion depicted. The clouds flow like oceans, and the stars move serenely. His choice of Moonlight Sonata works well here, especially since the sequences are shown in time order, with the setting Sun leading to a night of observations at this important and heavily-used astronomical site.

Ill have to bookmark this video; when Im feeling stressed or overwhelmed with the need to save the world, this will help me remember what it is were trying to save.

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Higher-than-normal tides -- tied to a full moon -- have added to Hurricane Sandy's coastal flooding threat.

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New e-book entitled The One-Minute Astronomer: Tips, Tales, and Tours for the Casual Stargazer now makes it easier for would-be stargazers to learn about astronomy. This e-book is a collection of more than 100 short and easy-to-read articles about stargazing for new and experienced stargazers, and for middle and high-school science teachers and homeschoolers looking to learn more about basic astronomy.

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Some think astronomy is too hard, while others are too busy, always waiting for the right time to learn more about the night sky, says Dr. Brian Ventrudo, editor and publisher of the book. The idea behind this e-book is simple: it helps build understanding and enjoyment of astronomy one small step at a time. Most of the articles take just a minute or two to read and dont require any specialized background in science. After dipping into these articles, readers will have a grasp of the basics of stargazing. And theyll know a little of the science behind some of the most beautiful sights in the night sky.

The One-Minute Astronomer: Tips, Tales, and Tours for the Casual Stargazer is based on the most widely-read articles from One-Minute Astronomer, a website that provides readers with accessible, interesting, and accurate information related to stargazing and the science of astronomy. Articles in the e-book include tips to help stargazers see more in the night sky and select their own equipment, tales to introduce readers to historical events and to remarkable astronomers who changed the course of science with their astonishing discoveries, and tours to help readers find and enjoy dozens of beautiful and fascinating objects in the night sky. The articles include illustrations and detailed star maps.

The e-book is available at the Amazon Kindle website at http://amzn.to/T50d44, and can be downloaded at no cost until midnight (PDT) on Saturday, October 20, 2012. To learn more about One-Minute Astronomer, visit http://www.oneminuteastronomer.com.

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The night sky is a wondrous, mysterious draw for star gazers and astronomy enthusiasts.

The newly formed Warren County Astronomical Society hopes to attract members with a sky party kick off event, set for 4:30 p.m. Oct. 20 at Hisey Park, 5443 Middletown Road in Waynesville.

It is our opening event to invite the public in and see if they would like to join, president Jeff Blazey said.

The group formed about a year ago and is headquartered at Hisey Park. The cost of a yearly membership is $35 per person.

Were seeking membership and want to teach people about the night sky, said Fred Bay, Warren County Park District commissioner and director of the astronomical society.

The society is affiliated with the Warren County Park District. The group will operate out of three locations: Hisey Park, Camp Joy and Gulley Park, on Middleborough Road, southwest of Clarksville.

The darker the sky equals better viewing, Bay said. That is the jewel of Warren County. Jeff did extensive surveys to find the darkest areas in the county.

One subgroup within the astronomy society is radio astronomy, which includes talking through satellites and listening to sounds from planets. Future subgroups will track the international space station and satellites, and learn how to make telescopes.

Goals include workshops and educational components for members.

Blazey and his late wife, County Prosecutor Rachel Hutzel, donated a refracting telescope to the society.

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Discover the universe at Florida State College of Jacksonvilles Fall Astronomy Day, expanded to cover two weekends.

7 p.m. Friday - Whats Up. Doc? with NASA Teacher-in-Space National Finalist Mike Reynolds, followed at 7:30 p.m. with a session on Jacksonvilles Round Marsh Crater with University of North Florida Professor Emeritus Jay Huebner, all in Room E104 at Florida State College Kent Campus, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd.

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20 - Solar viewing at the Museum of Science and History, 1025 Museum Circle, with ongoing childrens activities. This is included with regular museum admission.

Stargazing at Hanna Park - 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20 at the park at 500 Wonderwood Drive in Atlantic Beach. The city may charge a $3-per-car fee.

Winter Star Party - 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26 at the Bryan-Gooding Planetarium at the Museum of Science and History, 1025 Museum Circle.

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Fall astronomy days at MOSH, FSCJ and Hanna Park

Here’s a slice of weird: a photo taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station of three small cubes floating by: What could they be? Balok’s warning buoy? Tiny little Borg ships? The ISS trying to roll a crit 18? Nope. Those are CubeSats , small satellites about 10 cm (4 inches) on a side and having a mass up to a little over a kilo. Even though they’re teeny, they can be packed with ...

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Its Dr. Evil, I didnt spend six years in Evil Medical School to be called mister, thank you very much. -Dr. Evil, from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Graduate school is hard work, and Ph.D. programs in Physics and Astronomy are some of the most demanding and competitive ones out there. Its well-known that its incredibly difficult to strike a good work/life balance while youre in graduate school, and that between classes, homework, reading, research, and any teaching or service duties you may have, you cannot expect to spendonly40 hours a week on all of your responsibilities, combined.

There is simply too much.

Reading through incredibly dense textbooks is only a small part of what must be done.

But if you are in graduate school for physics, astronomy, or anything else theres presumably one reason that everyone who does it has in common: theres something you want to learn so bad, that youre so passionate about, that you mustlearn it for yourself. And that means jumping through all the necessary hoops, learning how to use the tools you need to, meeting the necessary requirements, and keeping the right people happy. It means doing the things you have to do in order to be able to do the things you want to do.

For me, that thing I wanted to do was this.

Image credit: Matthias Bartelmann.

Cosmology, the Big Bang, the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe, Inflation, Dark Matter and Energy, and everything that goes into and comes from that. That was and is my scientific passion. You may or may not have one; yours may or may not overlap with mine.

Its one of the greatest joys in my life. But it doesnt definemy life, and I always resented the idea which exists at many top Universities around the world that it ought todefine my life. Im not a scientist who lives science, breathes science, eats science, craps science, dreams science, and spends 100% of their time immersed in science. And I dont want to be. I want to be myself, which includes science, but which also includes lots of other parts of being a human being, and having what we colloquially refer to as a life.

A selection of some of my "finer" moments in the non-scientific portions of my life.

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Hey, Physics & Astronomy Professors? THIS IS NOT OKAY! [Starts With A Bang]

Astronomy has turned up a second diamond planet, and its a relative neighbor to the solar system a mere 40 light-years distant, circling 55 Cancri.

Unlike the diamond planet discovered by Australian astronomers last year, this one didnt even need a pulsars gravity to give it the squeeze. It inherited its mostly-carbon composition from its host star.

Artist's impression of 55 Cancri e - graphite surrounding diamond, then silicon

and a molten iron core. Source: Haven Giguere & Yale University

Designated 55 Cancri e, with a radius twice Earths and eight times the mass, screams around its star in just 18 hours, and the Yale researchers that discovered it estimate its temperature at 3,900F (about 2,150°C).

This is our first glimpse of a rocky world with a fundamentally different chemistry from Earth, said lead researcher Nikku Madhusudhan, a Yale postdoctoral researcher in physics and astronomy (emphasis added). The surface of this planet is likely covered in graphite and diamond rather than water and granite.

The planet was first spotted transiting 55 Cancri last year, providing an estimate of its radius. That, combined with estimates of its mass, allowed the Yale team to estimate the planets chemical composition and come up with the hypothesis that its mostly carbon, existing as graphite and diamond, along with iron, silicon carbide and some silicates. They estimate that as much as one-third of 55 Cancri es mass could be diamond.

The 55 Cancri system is one of the most populous known to astronomy, with at least five planets orbiting it. As El Reg reported back in 2007, one of those planets may be close to the zone where water could exist. 55 Cancri e is the nearest planet to the host, and was first discovered in 2004.

Yales research is to be published in Astrophysics Journal Letters.

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Yale finds second diamond planet

Science Ranch 2012 has wrapped up, and it was way, way too much fun.

Quick background: my wife Marcella and I started up Science Getaways, where we create vacation packages and add science to them. We figured we love learning about the places we visit; their natural wonders, the geography, biology, and more, so why not make it official and put something like this together for other science lovers? At Science Getaways we take vacation packages and add exploration hikes, talks by scientists, star parties yknow, SCIENCE. The point was to get like-minded science afficiandos together and have them get even more out of their time off; thats why we call it a "vacation with your brain".

Our first venture was to the C Lazy U Guest Ranch in Granby, Colorado. Nestled in a valley in the Rockies, its a stunning setting with lots of natural beauty. We invited geologist Holly Brunkal and biologist/ecologist Dave Armstrong to come, with me pulling astronomy duty. In September, a group of science lovers descended upon the ranch for four days of fun, relaxation, and SCIENCE.

I know I may be a wee bit biased, but I think everyone had a lot of fun. The ranch itself boasts a lot of outdoor activities: horseback riding, a ropes course, biking, and more. Marcella and I had to laugh; when we first organized this Getaway, we asked folks if theyd like to ride horses, and only a few said yes. But once everyone got there, nearly every single person went for at least one ride! It was a great way to get out into the hills without a lot of effort helpful in the rarefied air at 2500 meters (8000+ feet) elevation!

The science was, of course, amazing. We learned a lot about the local flora, fauna, and geology of the region. Did you know the Rockies we see today are actually the second Rockies? There used to be a range here in Colorado hundreds of millions of years ago, and they eroded away. Eventually, a new mountain range pushed up, forming todays Rockies.

Driving the lessons home, we went on several hikes to explore the natural world ourselves. At different times during the week we saw moose, bear, elk, pronghorn, mule deer, coyotes, foxes, and chipmunks. At one point we had a handsome young fox poking around nearby too, probably looking for lunch.

Probably the highlight of the hikes was when we all went to a stream bed near the ranch. Over the years its wandered a bit, exposing rock washed down from the hills. Within a few minutes, one of our guests found a fossilized leaf imprint dating back to the Creataceous Era, more than 65 million years ago! Not five minutes later another guest found a lovely specimen of petrified wood. We all started poking around in earnest after that; I found some fascinating samples including anorthositic rock, and a lovely layered sedimentary rock that got baked by a lava intrusion, turning it black as coal.

Of course, there was astronomy. Oh my, was there. The first night we walked outside from the main lounge room, and even before our eyes had properly adjusted to the dark we could see the Milky Way blazing overhead. I had my new Celestron 20 cm (8") telescope, generously donated for the occasion by Celestron, Inc., and we took it a few hundred meters out from the lights of the ranch to observe. We saw a dizzying variety of celestial favorites: globular clusters, planetary nebulae, binary stars, open clusters, galaxies (M 31, the Andromeda Galaxy, was amazing and easily visible to the naked eye), and more. It was chilly, but we still had a lot of folks stick around for hours while we observed. I usually observe from my home where the skies are decent, but being out where its truly dark makes a world ah, a Universe of difference.

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LAS CRUCES Area residents interested in astronomy will have several opportunities throughout October to learn more about outer space through multiple activities of the Fellowship of Las Cruces Area Rocketry Enthusiasts and Astronomical Society of Las Cruces.

The organizations will have several public outreach and education activities for the community this month, beginning with the Apollo 17 40th anniversary commemorative event Friday at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo.

Activities begin at 9:30 a.m. Friday and will include launch demonstrations of scale replicas of some historic White Sands rockets, a re-enactment of the Apollo 17 launch and a presentation by Dr. Harrison Schmitt and Jan Evans, widow of Apollo 17 command module pilot Ronald E. Evans, at 10:30 at the Tays Center.

Afternoon activities at the commemoration event include hands-on demonstrations, museum tours and special exhibits. Southern New Mexico Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Aerospace Academy students will have an egg loft competition in the parking lot at the museum.

At 6:30, FLARE will present an Apollo 17 night launch re-enactment in the upper parking lot at the museum. Several rockets will be launched just before and after sunset.

FLARE and ASLC will also host Astronomy Day from 5 to 10 p.m. Oct. 20 at the Field of Dreams in Las Cruces. Telescopes will be set up to observe the sun, moon and deep space objects. ASLC members will also be giving presentations

For more information about FLARE, visit http://www.flare-rocketry.com; for information about the ASLC, visit http://www.aslc-nm.org; for information about the upcoming commemoration events, visit http://www.nmspacemuseum.org and http://www.apollo40.org.

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Alamogordo, Las Cruces astronomy events on horizon

My pal Veronica Belmont hosts a show on TechFeed called Fact or Fictional, where she investigates the science of a movie based on viewer suggestions. She recently took on the wonderful fantastic gawd-awful piece of festering offal "Armageddon", talking to scientist Joe Hanson, who writes the terrific Its OK to Be Smart blog.

Lets just say they agree with me about the movie:

Yay! That was fun. This pretty much follows my own recent thoughts on the movie, as well as my original review of it when it came out in 1998.

If you want to learn how wed really prevent an asteroid impact, and why we need to take this seriously, I gave a TEDxBoulder talk about it. Its a real threat, but one we can prevent if we choose to do so.

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A new high-tech instrument with 24 robotic arms has crossed the Atlantic from Edinburgh to a mountain top in Chile to address in more detail than ever before, some of the key questions surrounding the beginnings of the universe, stars and galaxies. KMOS (K-Band Multi Object Spectrometer) has been provisionally accepted by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) after it completed final assembly and testing at the UK Astronomy Technology Center (UK ATC) in Edinburgh. It will now be fitted to one of the four telescopes which make up the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO-VLT) at Paranal in Chile, providing astronomers with a far quicker solution to uncover details about galaxies and their properties.

What makes KMOS unique is its ability to image many galaxies simultaneously either in a cluster or in isolation but in both cases, still see the individual properties of each single galaxy. Until now, each galaxy has had to be identified individually to obtain that information, a process that takes years. KMOS will be able to see the same amount of detail in just two months.

Each of the 24 cryogenic robotic arms, which have gold plated mirrors on their tips, can be moved into position to pinpoint with extreme accuracy the light coming from distant galaxies.

Dr. Michele Cirasuolo is the lead instrument scientist for KMOS at UK ATC. He said: "KMOS represents a pivotal step in our quest to scrutinize the distant universe. The ability to observe in the near-infrared 24 galaxies simultaneously is an enormous leap forward compared to any other current instrument. KMOS will allow a much faster survey speed...most of the observations done by similar near-infrared spectrographs over the last 10 years could be done in just two months with KMOS."

This novel capability means astronomers will be able to make a detailed study of the mass assembly and star formation in distant, high red-shift galaxies addressing fundamental questions about when these first formed and how they evolve. This ability to observe multiple galaxies at once enables scientists to build up large statistical samples of galaxies at different cosmic epochs necessary to unveil the physical mechanisms that shape their formation and evolution.

KMOS creates this detailed picture using integral field spectroscopy and obtains spectra over a two-dimensional area, covering the entire galaxy. The light from each segment of galaxy (its core, the bulge, the spiral arms and the outer parts) is analyzed simultaneously and each can be given physical and chemical properties. Not only therefore, can a complete galaxy be measured, but each individual part too, allowing a comprehensive picture to be built.

"For each of the galaxies, KMOS will give an incredible amount of information. It's not just a picture of a galaxy, but 3D spectroscopy providing the spatially resolved physics and the chemistry and the dynamics. This is crucial to understand how galaxies assemble their mass and shape their structure as a function of cosmic time, up to the formation of the very first galaxies, more than 13 billion years ago" explains Michele Cirasuolo.

The specialized mechanisms inside KMOS have been designed to work in cryogenic conditions below minus two hundred degrees centigrade, which has been a major challenge, but which is necessary to observe distant galaxies at near-infrared wavelengths. This is because, unless cooled, the thermal emission from the instrument itself will swamp the faint signal from the astronomical sources.

Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts said: "It's excellent to see the UK playing a leading role in the development of such a sophisticated piece of technology and overcoming some very complex engineering challenges on the way. This instrument will now take its place on a world leading telescope to help improve our knowledge and understanding of the universe around us."

The instrument is a collaboration of six institutions in Germany and the UK, including STFC's UK Astronomy Technology Center (UK ATC), Durham University, Oxford University and RAL Space at STFC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The team of internationally respected scientists and engineers at UK ATC played a major role in the KMOS project, being responsible, amongst others, for the construction of the cryostat, the 24 robotic pick-off arms, the cable co-rotator and the final assembly and test of the complete instrument. RAL Space applied their cryogenic lens mounting technology in the three camera barrels they provided for spectrographs in KMOS. Durham University has the PI of the entire project and produced the complex system of more than 1000 mirrors in the integral field unit. Oxford University provided the design and assembly of the three spectrographs in KMOS.

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UK Contributes 24 Robotic Arms in Giant Leap in Near-Infrared Astronomy

So I sit down to go through my email, and its the usual slew of press releases, spam, space enthusiast questions, and marriage proposals. No, wait, I dont get those last ones. Still, its a lot of email.

But one cataches my eye. The subject line is "Space Pop". Just that. Huh. So I click it, and right away I know I was about to be happy.

The opening line is, "Im a fan. Of you. Of space. Of inspiring curiosity about science. "

I love hearing that. The email is from Kim Boekbinder, an independent pop music artist, and she wants to make a space album. Or more accurately an album of music based on and inspired by space and astronomy, and in the email shes asking me to be an advisor on it (along with Matt Everingham). She also links to her first song from the album: "The Sky Is Calling". I listen to it, and Im hooked.

Heres the song:

I know, right? Kims awesome. By the way, she fed an image of the Tarantula nebula through an audio program to create the background for that song. So, yeah.

Kims raising funds to get this album [wait for it, wait for it] off the ground [hahahahahaha! I kill me], so shes got a Kickstarter page for it. As I write this shes already more than 1/3 of the way to her goal of $30k, which is great! Id really like to see this album get made. She and I have been chatting back and forth, and every time I send her some astronomy note, she gets really excited and wants to write music about it.

So if you can, kick in some filthy lucre for her. Ill note that when she got to $5k she wrote a short and quick song based on a post I wrote about the expansion of the Universe. Seriously. And when she got to $10k she wrote a short song about Mars Rovers.

If you want a taste of more of her music, she has some you can listen to on her website. Note: One of them is massively NSFW. Youll know when you get to it.

The past couple of years has seen a lot of artists looking to include more science in their work (see Related Posts below). Maybe thats always been there, but what I know is that recently they started contacting me. I think thats fantastic. After all, isnt a Hubble picture art? Doesnt seeing a photo from Curiosity make your heart beat a little faster? Doesnt something like this pluck at the wires connecting the two halves of your brain?

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Astronomy Cast, Episode 275: Isaac Newton - Video

Observed While Falling is the account of the Word-Image Novel Ah Pook Is Here, an idea conceived by writer WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS and artist MALCOLM MC NEILL in London in 1970, abandoned after seven years, lost for twenty-five, then rediscovered and published four decades after it began.

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03-10-2012 08:50 There's some topics on Astronomy Cast that we wait until we are good and ready, until the science is all in. The Dawn mission has completed it's mapping operations at asteroid Vesta and it's now moving on to Ceres. This gives us a great opportunity to take a detailed look at this amazing asteroid, report on the science findings, and give you a preview of what's coming next.

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In which we win an award from the New Frontiers in Astronomy Program.

The New Frontiers in Astronomy and Cosmology program announced its research grant award winners yesterday.

The last, but not least of the Big Questions solicited in the Call for Proposals, was: Are we alone in the universe? Or, are there other life and intelligence beyond the solar system?

There were four awards in this Astrobiology and SETI category, focusing on different approaches in the search for life elsewhere in the Universe.

We got one:

Constraining the Abundance of Kardashev Type II and III Civilizations From Large Area Infrared Surveys

with PI Prof. Jason Wright (Penn State), yours truly, and Prof. Matthew Povich, formerly at Penn State, now at Cal Poly.

This is one of the most fun projects Ive been involved with, and I am really looking forward to working on this over the next couple of years, and hopefully beyond, if we find something

The proposal came together serendipitously when I bumped into Jason in a stairwell at the office. Jason had just been to a seminar on infrared surveys, and I had been thinking about the New Frontiers call for proposals (I was working on another proposal on complexity, which, sadly, did not get selected). Within hours we had put together a pre-proposal and sent it in to New Frontiers. The proposal then made the cut to be invited for a submission of a full proposal. The full proposal was actually really good, in my humble and impartial opinion, and, we got one of the awards. Yay us!

So now what?

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New Frontiers in Astronomy: Cosmic Abundance of Kardashevs [Dynamics of Cats]

In the past 50 years, the European Southern Observatory has delivered breathtaking imagery of the Southern Sky. The choice was clear on where to build some of the worlds largest telescopes.

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Construction of the CSIRO's ground-breaking, 36-dish Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, about 315km northeast of Geraldton, is now complete.

The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder is expected to discover in its early stages - using just 36 dishes - more than 700,000 new supergalaxies, CSIRO says.

radio-astronomy instruments on the planet.

They are the precursor to the international Square Kilometre Array project that Australia will host with South Africa and New Zealand.

CSIRO chief executive Megan Clark said ASKAP would pick up radio signals sent before the earth existed.

It will provide an insight into the very beginnings of the universe and help answer some of the most fundamental questions of 21st century astronomy and physics involving dark matter, dark energy, the nature of gravity, the origins of first stars and galaxies, and the generation of magnetic fields in space.

Ms Clark said the amount of data to be captured and moved was mind-boggling.

In the first few weeks of this facility (being) up and running, the amount of data that will move from here through Geraldton and down to Perth, is more than currently exists in all of radioastronomy around the world, she told reporters on site.

And very soon we will have enough data that will really be more than what we see on the internet today.

Science and Research Minister Chris Evans, who attended the launch on Friday, said the ASKAP was an important science project in its own right, but would also provide the basis for Australia's contribution to the broader $2.5 billion SKA project, jointly hosted with South Africa and New Zealand.

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SKA Pathfinder telescope launched in WA