Biggest telescope could come to Africa
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nairiporterSA bids for SKA telescope
http://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00013602.html
South Africa is leading an African bid to host the world's most powerful radio telescope. These articles and video explain how such a telescope, comprising antennae and infrastructure across the continent, would work and what it aims to find.
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Graphics showing the five key science questions that the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will answer.
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) promises to revolutionise science by answering some of the most fundamental questions that remain about the origin, nature and evolution of the universe. With global investment supporting the project and astronomers and engineers around the world already working on its design, construction on the SKA is scheduled to start around 2016. The first astronomical observations are expected by 2019 and the telescope should be fully functional by 2024. South Africa has partnered with eight more African countries in its bid to bring the SKA to Africa.
http://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00013602.html
South Africa is leading an African bid to host the world's most powerful radio telescope. These articles and video explain how such a telescope, comprising antennae and infrastructure across the continent, would work and what it aims to find.
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Graphics showing the five key science questions that the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will answer.
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) promises to revolutionise science by answering some of the most fundamental questions that remain about the origin, nature and evolution of the universe. With global investment supporting the project and astronomers and engineers around the world already working on its design, construction on the SKA is scheduled to start around 2016. The first astronomical observations are expected by 2019 and the telescope should be fully functional by 2024. South Africa has partnered with eight more African countries in its bid to bring the SKA to Africa.
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