Astronomy Research Timeline
1960s
- Built 1961 and was fully operational by 1963.
- Support for the NASA Apollo Missions in late 1960s.
1970s
- Receiver upgrades and detailed observations begin.
1980s
- Upgrade to 64m from previously smaller aperture.
1990s
- Between 1997 and 2002 it conducted the HIPASS neutral hydrogen survey, the largest blind survey for galaxies in the neutral hydrogen line to date.
2000s
- More than half of currently known pulsars were discovered by the Parkes Observatory.
Read more about this topic: Parkes Observatory
Famous quotes containing the words astronomy and/or research:
“Awareness of the stars and their light pervades the Koran, which reflects the brightness of the heavenly bodies in many verses. The blossoming of mathematics and astronomy was a natural consequence of this awareness. Understanding the cosmos and the movements of the stars means understanding the marvels created by Allah. There would be no persecuted Galileo in Islam, because Islam, unlike Christianity, did not force people to believe in a “fixed” heaven.”
—Fatima Mernissi, Moroccan sociologist. Islam and Democracy, ch. 9, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. (Trans. 1992)
“Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)