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10 of the best Australian observatories

Australia is blessed with little light pollution and many observatories with which to gaze up at the stars.
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Paul Wild Observatory, NSW

The arch of the Milky Way captured above CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array in Narrabri, NSW. There are six dishes like the ones pictured here, that combine to form a "virtual" dish with a diameter of up to 6km, helping to produce images of distant galaxies.

A recent upgrade, announced this month, doubled their sensitivity, meaning better and more detailed images should follow over the next few years.

Photo Credit: Emil Lenc (CAASTRO postdoc, University of Sydney)
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