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A remote outback station about 800km north of Perth in Western Australia is one of the best places in the world to operate telescopes that listen for radio signals from space.
It’s the site of CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) and is home to three telescopes (and soon a fourth when half of the Square Kilometre Array, the world’s largest radio telescope, is built there).
But it’s important these telescopes don’t pick up any other radio signals generated here on Earth that could interfere with their observations.
That’s why the observatory was set up with strict rules on what can and can’t be used on site.