Historic Treaty Marks the 'Real Beginning' for Telescope Array

After three-and-a-half years of negotiations, seven countries - South Africa, Australia, China, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom - have signed a treaty in Rome to establish the Square Kilometre Array Observatory and oversee the building and operation of the massive radio telescope project for the next 50 years.

Some of the 64 radio antennas of the MeerKAT telescope in the Karoo, 90km outside Carnarvon.

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