Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Telescope

[ICanSleepWhenI'mDead]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/26/tech/innovation/ska-telescope/index.html?iref=obnetwork

 

Gets its name not from the ground area on which the dishes will be placed, but from the collective surface area of the dishes combined!

 

It's been billed as an astronomical equivalent of the Large Hadron Collider, offering new insights into the formation of the universe and so powerful that it might even detect alien life.

 

The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is an international effort to build the world's largest radio telescope, one which will probe the dark heart of space shedding new light on dark matter, black holes, stars and galaxies.

 

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"The Large Hadron Collider produces a certain amount of data per hour. This will produce the same amount of data in the space of a couple of minutes."

 

Wonder if SETI will get any time on the array?

[UConn James]

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[Just Jack]

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Twenty million people died defeating that son of a B word, and he's our first ambassador to outer space?

[PromoTheRobot]

One of these decades we will build an array on the moon as wide as the moon itself. That's we make the magic happen.

 

PTR