Southern African Telescopes Will Reveal Secrets of the Universe
2018 will be a watershed year for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) with the collaborative radio telescope project set to determine how galaxies similar to our own formed billions of years ago, writes Imogen Whittam for The Conversation.
MeerKAT array (file photo).
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The Square Kilometre Array radio relescope installation has broken new ground in the field of gravitational wave research after oberving the collision of two neutron stars in what ... Read more »
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The conversion of a Ghanaian communications antenna into a functioning radio telescope has been described as extremely significant for Africa's participation in the Square ... Read more »
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The Square Kilometre Array radio telescope has revealed the first image of space taken using the project's first phase of 16 fully-functioning MeerKAT receptor units. Read more »