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yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts) Sat Sep 9, 2017, 01:31 PM Sep 2017

A Huge New Telescope In Canada Is Tracking The History Of The Universe's Expansion

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A Huge New Telescope In Canada Is Tracking The History Of The Universe's Expansion (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Sep 2017 OP

New telescope looks nothing like the bogus picture you chose for the video. That's ancient tech Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2017 #1

Totally cool! PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2017 #2

That looks like the antenna at Parkes, NSW (Australia) LastLiberal in PalmSprings Sep 2017 #3

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,027 posts)

1. New telescope looks nothing like the bogus picture you chose for the video. That's ancient tech

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Sat Sep 9, 2017, 01:59 PM

Sep 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Hydrogen_Intensity_Mapping_Experiment

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,873 posts)

2. Totally cool!

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Sat Sep 9, 2017, 02:06 PM

Sep 2017

I have a son starting a PhD program in astrophysics. His area of research is exo-planets, but I'm sending him the link.

Thanks for posting.

LastLiberal in PalmSprings

(12,590 posts)

3. That looks like the antenna at Parkes, NSW (Australia)

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Sun Sep 10, 2017, 01:40 AM

Sep 2017

This was the "star" of the movie, "The Dish." At that time it wasn't used for deep space exploration, rather communications with the Apollo missions and other spacecraft in the solar system.

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