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📡 Beyond citizen science: engineers building the SKA-Low radio telescope in Australia had to rework its antenna layout. The original sunflower-inspired Vogel spiral placed antennas a regular 2.4 m apart, causing destructive interference - a blind spot - at 125 MHz whenever the array looked toward the Milky Way. The fix: a "Perturbed Vogel" pattern.
📅 28 Sep 2026
🔗 https://www.universetoday.com/articles/why-the-worlds-biggest-radio-telescope-had-to-tweak-natures-perfect-sunflower-spiral
#RadioAstronomy #Science #Space -
📡 Beyond citizen science: engineers building the SKA-Low radio telescope in Australia had to rework its antenna layout. The original sunflower-inspired Vogel spiral placed antennas a regular 2.4 m apart, causing destructive interference - a blind spot - at 125 MHz whenever the array looked toward the Milky Way. The fix: a "Perturbed Vogel" pattern.
📅 28 Sep 2026
🔗 https://www.universetoday.com/articles/why-the-worlds-biggest-radio-telescope-had-to-tweak-natures-perfect-sunflower-spiral
#RadioAstronomy #Science #Space