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Window into space: the Parkes radio telescope

Australia, 1965
film

The 210-foot Parkes Radio Telescope is one of the largest steerable instruments in the world and the largest in the Southern Hemisphere, a parabolic antenna s..

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Frontiers in space

United States, 1962
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Australian diary. No. 123

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Wherever you go there's radio

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The Inquisitive giant

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A New look at the sun

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Radio astronomy in Australia

Australia, 1958
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Reaching for the stars

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Looking up down under

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Radio sky

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To the edge of the universe

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Charting the universe with optical and radio telescopes

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