The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope will be installed both in Australia and South Africa, project managers announce. This will be the most sensitive radio installation ever developed, and will be used to investigate the Universe in more detail than ever before.
The announcement was made yesterday, May 2... |
26 May 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Astronomers in Australia and South Korea recently managed to link five individual radio telescopes, producing a single, massive observatory, some 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) across.
The tool works through interferometry, a process that enables multiple telescopes to be networked together. When properly adjusted, ... |
3 April 2012
09:28 GMT |
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Officials at IBM announced yesterday, April 1, that the company was awarded a $42 million contract for processing the data obtained by the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). This will be the most sensitive radio observatory ever developed, and will require enormous amounts of computer processing power.
The telescope... |
2 April 2012
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A new collaboration between astronomical institutions in New Zealand and Australia sees the creation of one of the largest interferometry-based radio telescopes in the world. No less than six facilities across the two countries signed a cooperation agreement, which essentially links these individual stations into a s... |
27 May 2010
10:08 GMT |
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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is currently the largest astronomical initiative in existence. But plans exist to construct an even larger and more sensitive radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). There are several nations involved in the race for hosting the new international coll... |
3 March 2010
10:40 GMT |
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