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The Square Kilometre Area (SKA) will be the world’s largest radio telescope when it starts operations in late 2020. Spread over a million square metres in South Africa and Australia, it will use thousands of dishes and up to a million antennae to collect radio waves, giving us the most detailed view ever of the radio sky
Our Instrument Scientist, Pamela, talks about the amazing science and technology of the SKA, and how the UK ATC is involved in making it happen
SKA will make radio images over the whole sky much faster and in more detail than ever before
SKA Science
These are the types of questions, the SKA will help astronomers answer:
How did the first stars and black holes form?
How do galaxies evolve?
What is ‘dark matter’ and ‘dark energy’?
What makes huge magnetic fields in space?
By the numbers
Download our infographics to learn more about how SKA compares to other radio telescopes and just how BIG and complex it will be!
