The theme for National Science Week 2022 is Glass: More than meets the eye. ICRAR will run a public lecture by Dr Sabine Bellstedt, a dynamic 2021/22 Superstar of STEM and widely-published local ICRAR astrophysicist, to promote and share the history of astronomy from the first people to stare at the skies, to the hand made telescopes of Galileo, to the modern day instruments probing the universe. The lecture will explain how Indigenous Australian knowledge of the night sky was observed and used with the naked eyes, how glass was used to develop telescopes, and how the silicone, which uses sand that is also used to make glass, is now used in supercomputers and radio astronomy.

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