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Saturday, March 3, 2018

Looking back closer to the moment of the Big Bang

In senior classes about one week ago, we saw the Ted talk below. This explained the radio telescope that is out in the western Australian desert, which is a 'radio quiet' area - no radio stations, towns, Wifi, cell towers, or anything else within hundreds of miles. This has allowed astronomers to put out radio receivers over hundreds of square miles, aimed at the sky. And being a desert, there is almost no rain or clouds...an ideal place for radio astronomy. Well, this has been giving scientists unprecedented looks at the universe from the radio portion of the spectrum, and now it has shown what the universe looked like as early as humans have ever seen. Dr. Hurley-Walker explains in her talk what these new results are all about. Very cool!

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