Belinda Smith

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The Science Show · Response to Australia’s ASO rejection · 24 Apr 2026 podcast

So what does that cost us and what have we gained from it?

Can we expand on that engineering side, please, and the benefits of building instruments for telescopes?

So how do they create spin-offs that us non-astronomers get to use, and what are the economic benefits?

And on the science side of things, we do have optical telescopes in Australia, right?

Why do we need access to these bigger ones in South America?

And the ELT is being built there.

That's the Extremely Large Telescope.

And it's due to start test observations in 2029.

So Australian astronomers will miss out on access to that.

But the other big telescope we've heard a lot about is the Square Kilometre Array.

Can that not help support local astronomy?

What would full membership to the European Southern Observatory cost?

Has the door shut to the European Southern Observatory?

Is there a plan B?

Professor Fred Watson.

Now, something that comes up time and again in these conversations is how the fancy new tech that goes into telescope instruments can be spun off into everyday life.

To find out more about this, I spoke to Professor Richard McDermid, an astrophysicist also at Macquarie University.

Sounds like ESO's got a lot to gain from Mavis' installation.

When will it be popped on the telescope?

I mean, I'm sure it's a little bit more, you know, technical than that, but when will it be installed?

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