One extreme example was PKS 0735+178, discovered with the
Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia.
The effort is being made possible with the help of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization's (CSIRO)
Parkes Radio Telescope ("Parkes") in New South Wales, Australia, and its upgraded instrumentation.
So far, several petabytes of data have been obtained using the world's largest steerable radio telescope at Green Bank, West Virginia, US, and the
Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia.
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The
Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales has been pointed towards Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star 4.2 light years away.
It was first seen by chance in 2007, when astronomers went through archival data from the
Parkes Radio Telescope in Eastern Australia.
He and his student David Narkevic were mining old data from Australia's
Parkes Radio Telescope for oddly behaving pulsars, the rapidly spinning cores of dead massive stars.
The finding by an international team of astronomers marks the first time that a so-called "fast radio burst" has been detected using an instrument other than the
Parkes radio telescope in Australia.
"It is more than 100 times the size of our galaxy, the Milky Way, which already stretches for 100,000 light years." Carretti and his colleagues at the CSLRO, using the
Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, have been analyzing a cluster of galaxies known as Abell 3667.
Edward George Bowen born; helped to develop radio astronomy in Australia; helped in the construction of the
Parkes radio telescope and the Anglo-Australian telescope.