Square Kilometre Array

The international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an exciting, once-in-a-century project that will place its host State at the forefront of radio astronomy globally.



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Australia and Southern Africa have been short listed as possible hosts of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - the international radio telescope for the 21st Century. The final decision is expected to be announced in 2012.

The SKA will be a revolutionary, next-generation radio telescope, capable of transformational science and will address fundamental questions in physics and cosmology.

This telescope will digitally combine signals from several thousand 12m diameter antennas with a collecting area of around one million square metres and will also provide the sharpest pictures of the sky of any telescope.

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[fistchat]

Are there intelligent organic life forms out there? Not sure the SKA will find any, but it will find any earth like planets. SKA is 10000 times more powerful that what we have now and will produce more information than today’s computing can handle. This is amazing, lets hope Australia and New Zealand get it.

[dogboxdogs]

Go the New Zealand and Australian bid!!! Im a little biased though

[rockingongirlsband]

i would like to know a little more about the date they designed it

[rockingongirlsband]

this is an awesome discovery