MURCHISON, Australia, July 11 (UPI) -- Australia has hit the "on" switch of a giant radio telescope to probe the earliest period of the universe, billions of years into the past, astronomers say.
The $51 million Murchison Widefield Array telescope in remote Western Australia, a low-frequency, wide-field radio telescope able to capture a vast amount of data from the Southern Hemisphere sky, was launched by the country's Science and Research Minister Kim Carr, The Australian reported Wednesday.