Radio Telescopes: Seeing through Clouds
By Tan Yu Kai
April 2022 FEATURE
GLOOMY SKIES. There is a disappointment condensing out of the air as the stargazers stare at the blank clouds. Months of anticipation, marking the calendar, asking others to mark the calendar (and after no small amount of driving for Penangites, a whole 40 minutes, to get to a dark spot), has brought about a December night that promises a spectacular deluge of meteors – The Geminids Meteor Shower. But the clouds had rolled in, obscuring the last star from the...
Tan Yu Kai
is a Penangite biologist-cum-artist passionate about human relationalities with the natural world. He is a triple major in Biology, Earth & Environmental Sciences and Anthropology, and was a Research Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
