SKA: Largest Radio Telescope On Earth

The Square Kilometer Array

The SKA will be so sensitive that it will be able to detect an airport radar on a planet 50 light years away.

The aperture arrays in the SKA could produce more than 100 times the global internet traffic.

The SKA super computer will perform 1018 operations per second -- equivalent to the number of stars in three million Milky Way galaxies -- in order to process all the data that the SKA will produce

Australia and New Zealand are jointly shortlisted as a potential host of the SKA telescope. Australia and New Zealand have worked together to establish an ideal candidate SKA site in Western Australia, build the Australian SKA Pathfinder telescope and maximise participation in the SKA process.

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http://www.skatelescope.org/
http://www.ska.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx
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