Nevertheless, here I am, a few hundred kilometers from the coast, standing on rusty red dirt, hiding under my sun hat. In this land of unpaved roads, kangaroo tracks, and low, scrubby vegetation, visitors can and sometimes do get lost. Photo: CSIROĮven in early winter, the sun is harsh in Western Australia’s Murchison shire. They’re part of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope (ASKAP), which is equipped with special “phased array feeds”-sets of 188 individual receivers that pick up radio signals reflected off the dishes, giving the telescope a wide field of view. Standing Tall: Dish antennas stand out against the sky at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, in Western Australia.
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