Students to tweet telescope takeover

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 04:49 in Mathematics & Economics

Students from three Melbourne high schools will take control of CSIRO's famous Parkes telescope in NSW using the internet today (Wednesday, 12 August) and post their results on Twitter. This is the first time the social networking site has been used to report their findings and already they have attracted international interest with NASA scientists signing up to watch their efforts...

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