Welcome to Parkes - Down Under, 'the dish' looks to the heavens (photos) - CNET News

Welcome to Parkes - Down Under, 'the dish' looks to the heavens (photos) - CNET News: View images and photos in CNET's Down Under, 'the dish' looks to the heavens (photos) - Just outside the town of Parkes in central New South Wales, Australia, sits one of the most prominent radio astronomy telescopes in the world. Completed in 1961 and designed by the U.K. firm Freeman Fox & Partners (which also engineered the Sydney Harbour bridge),