Australia starts building a vast network of antennas as part of a project that planners say will eventually become one of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world
The telescope"will be one of humanity's biggest-ever scientific endeavours", says SKA Observatory's Director-General Philip Diamond.Australia has started building a vast network of antennas in the Outback, its section of what planners say will eventually become one of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world.
Its name is based on the planners' original aim, a telescope that could observe a one-square-kilometre surface, but the current South African and Australian sections will have a combined collecting area of just under half that, according to the observatory. The project will help in "charting the birth and death of galaxies, searching for new types of gravitational waves and expanding the boundaries of what we know about the universe", said telescope director Sarah Pearce.
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