16 July 2018
Science begins with South Africa's super radio telescope
... (SARAO) in the semi-arid Karoo region of the Northern Cape, the MeerKAT facility is a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope, a joint project to build the world’s largest telescope in remote parts of both Africa and Australia...
02 December 2020
Astronomers map a million previously undiscovered galaxies in record time
.... In addition to being a world-leading telescope in its own right, ASKAP is an important technology demonstrator for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA); an international effort to build the world’s largest radio telescope. The SKA will eventually use...
07 October 2020
Chinese company seeks approval to launch nearly 13,000 satellites
...they will have a major impact on radio astronomy.” When completed, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have an effective collecting area of one square kilometre (one million square metres) spread over Australia and South Africa, making it the world...
01 August 2016
SETI has new eyes on the skies
...radio-quiet region of Western Australia, which is also one of three telescopes designated as a precursor for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), to examine spectral line data generated from 115 minutes of observation time with the telescope. Within ...
29 May 2020
Cosmic bursts solve Universe's 'missing matter' problem
... atomic hydrogen or helium in a highly ionised state, but pinpointing that information might have to wait until the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope is fully up and running. When it is, the SKA could observe large numbers of fast radio bursts...
10 July 2020
An unexpected class of 'odd' circular objects found by astronomers
... about, but EMU plans to boost that number to a staggering 70 million by using the newly completed Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, or ASKAP, to hone-in on galaxies millions of light years away. So far the ORCS have escaped detection...
