SpaceTime with Stuart Gary

After spending over 26 years as a senior ABC journalist & broadcaster, I’ve seen the once great ABC become a sheltered workshop of dishonest, corrupt, bias, left wing, journalism.

1.4 billion taxpayer dollars wasted annually on this cancerous crap.

Proof of ABC lies: Russian collusion hoax, Joe Biden dementia coverup, Biden laptop, George Pell, Gaza Hospital bombing, Charlottesville fine people hoax, Covington kids, fake Trump Jan 6 speech, fake Heston Russell Afghan gunshots, Jew hater Grace Tame given ABC job, fake Gaza genocide, Brittany Higgins coverup lie, ABC/RMIT fact check bias, lost multiple defamation cases. Palestinian genetic deformities portrayed as starvation. Attempted Belfast beheading.

20,000 eyes on the universe! Massive imaging surveys like Vera C. Rubin will soon catalog tens of billions of galaxies, but turning pretty pictures into knowledge requires detailed spectra—redshifts, chemistry, velocities—for each one.

Right now, the leading tool is DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) on Arizona's 4-meter Mayall Telescope: it uses 5,000 robotic optical fibers to simultaneously capture light from distant galaxies and quasars, feeding it to spectrographs that split the light into spectra across wavelengths from ~360–980 nm (visible to near-infrared).

This reveals how much the light has stretched (redshift), telling us distances, expansion history, and more—already building the largest 3D cosmic map yet.

Still, it's like draining an ocean with a bucket against billions of targets.

Enter MUST: the MUltiplexed Survey Telescope now under construction in China's Qinghai province.

This 6.5-meter powerhouse features over 20,000 robotic fiber positioners, four times more than DESI, covering a vastly larger sky area per exposure and delivering ten times overall efficiency.

Starting in the early 2030s, it will map redshifts for over 100 million galaxies and quasars in eight years.

On this day, June 16, 1942: As Rommel’s Afrika Korps raced toward Egypt & British Mandate Palestine, the Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini broadcast on Nazi Radio Zeesen from Berlin: “There will be no compromise in Palestine … the Jews have no right to the land.”

An SS Einsatzkommando death squad waited in Athens to follow Rommel and bring the Holocaust to the Yishuv’s ~500,000 Jews.

Arab sympathy for the Germans ran high.