The Dish in Parkes is scanning the southern Milky Way, searching for alien signals

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Jan 15, 202022:10News & Politics

The Parkes radio telescope can detect extremely weak signals coming from the most distant parts of the Universe. Shutterstock For John Sarkissian, operations scientist at the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope, astronomy has b...

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