* Astronomy

Spirited stargazing unlimited

More Western Australian school students will be able to take part in an innovative astronomy program through The University of Western Australia, thanks to an agreement signed last week between Hawaiian Pty Ltd and UWA.
Funded by Hawaiian and UWA, the $100,000 sophisticated optical telescope, SPIRIT II, will boost the successful SPIRIT I program.
The new telescope will enable many more Education Department schools throughout WA to benefit from the program in which students from Years 7 to 12 use their home computers to take their own images of galaxies hundreds of millions of light years away and of planets, comets and asteroids.
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