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Make The Dish! Activity

by David Shaw, 4 November 2021 | 0 comments

Paper model of radio telescope with starry background.

By David Shaw and Domonkos Szabo The Parkes radio telescope, turned 60 this week! To celebrate, why not make a model of The Dish?

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A to Z – a quick quiz Quiz

by David Shaw, 6 November 2019 | 0 comments

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We’re testing your science knowledge from A to Z! From animals quirks to the age of zircon, see if you can get all five questions right.

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Cricket on The Dish! News

by David Shaw, 18 October 2018 | 0 comments

Several people playing cricket on The Dish.

If you’ve ever seen the iconic movie The Dish, you’ll probably remember when two engineers turned the most famous telescope in Australia into a cricket pitch. Kids from across New South Wales got a chance to do the same, along with some of Australia’s biggest cricket stars.

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From dragonflies to The Dish – a quick quiz Quiz

by David Shaw, 25 April 2018 | 1 comments

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Think you’re scientifically savvy? Give this week’s quick quiz a try! Test yourself on tectonics and trilobites, work out how many legs a dragonfly has to stand on, and reveal what’s detected by The Dish.

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