ANU astrophysicist and cosmologist Dr Brad Tucker says it's 'great' that NASA will be launching three rockets from the Northern Territory for “scientific missions'.
ANU astrophysicist and cosmologist Dr Brad Tucker says it’s “great” that NASA will be launching three rockets from the Northern Territory for “scientific missions”.
“The first mission we’ll be looking in the x-rays, and the … second and third, we’ll be looking in the ultraviolet colours,” Dr Tucker told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “The objects they’re looking at, a few of them will be what we call Alpha Centauri … being that bright star near the Southern Cross, so you can only see that in the southern skies and southern part of the world and universe.”
He said there is a desire to launch from Australia because of our location, as well as our “access and infrastructure”.
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