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The Mopra radio telescope in the bush at CSIRO Siding Springs.

Networks create world telescope in real-time

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Dr Tasso Tzioumis from CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility describes how scientists are linking telescopes around the world in real-time. (6:18)

Last week a CSIRO radio telescope near Coonabarabran in NSW was used simultaneously with one near Shanghai, China, and five in Europe to observe a distant galaxy called 3C273.

In this podcast interview, Dr Tasso Tzioumis explains why this technical achievement is so important to astronomers.

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