Looking at eclipses with radio telescope also gives us insightful info into the active regions of the Sun (like sunspots) as well as helping study background sources twinkling in the Solar wind.
Some stills from Emil Lenc’s video of a partial solar eclipse (2023) seen by CSIRO’s ASKAP 📡📡📡📡📡
New research from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million metric tons of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor. The article, "Plastics in the deep sea—A global estimate of the ocean floor reservoir," was published in Deep Sea Research Part I:...
"Look, I can tell you, this claim by the CSIRO that you can run a whole country on solar and wind is simply a lie," [Dick] Smith said
Did he not get the memo about not denigrating and undermining our nations scientific bodies and hard working scientists? #auspol#science#csiro#renewableenergy
His keynote will focus on "Intelligent Interfaces", where he explores new forms of #interaction enabled by #sensing technologies such as sound, light, electric fields, radio waves and #BioSignals.
I had the good fortune today to visit the National #Bushfire Behaviour Research Laboratory at #CSIRO Black Mountain, #Canberra.
Watched an experiment in the Pyrotron - only one of two combustion wind tunnels in the world for conducting controlled experiments on bushfire conditions like fuel load, humidity and wind speed. This data goes into bushfire models to plan emergency management responses.
This particular experiment was testing how much water is required to extinguish the fire front. The total amount of water is surprisingly low (like 100 ml), but it needs to well aimed and timed...
#NASA goes to Australia to study stromatolites together with #ESA and #CSIRO. The exercises on this expedition mimicked what #Perseverance is doing remotely, millions of miles away: identifying samples in the field and studying the area around them.
"The Parkes radio telescope Murriyang, which helped broadcast the moon landing in 1969, has played a central role in another scientific discovery.
CSIRO scientists working at Murriyang have been observing an array of nano hertz frequency pulsars for almost 20 years. They are ripples in space time [gravitational waves] that are nearly the same size as the Milky Way.
"Another theory goes that the low-frequency gravitational waves were generated just after the Big Bang, right when the “inflation” or early exponential expansion of the universe began. If that bears out, these signals could be analysed to bring scientists to the start of the known universe.
Analysing electromagnetic radiation only gets astronomers to about 400,000 years after the Big Bang. The gravitational waves, if they are indeed relics of the early universe, could contain information that brings us within a nanosecond.
Ocean floor a 'reservoir' of plastic pollution, study finds (phys.org)
New research from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million metric tons of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor. The article, "Plastics in the deep sea—A global estimate of the ocean floor reservoir," was published in Deep Sea Research Part I:...