Low-frequency receiving tiles will be surrounded by high-frequency receiving dishes(Image: SKA Project Office/Xilostudios)
From NOVA:
ustralia is playing a leading part in plans to build the world’s largest radio telescope.
Australia is in the running to host a giant new radio telescope, the astronomical equivalent to the Large Hadron Collider which has been called the biggest science experiment in history.
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope will be too complex and costly (A$2.9 billion) to be built by any one country. Instead an international consortium of 19 countries has been formed to plan and build it. In October 2006, the consortium announced that two countries had been short listed to host the SKA – Australia and South Africa.
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