SKA Radio Telescope

SKA stands for Square Kilometre away. It is a radio telescope with an effective collecting area more than 30 times greater than the largest telescope ever built will reveal the dawn of galaxy formation, as well as many other new discoveries in all fields of astronomy.

Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects at radio frequencies.

An initiative has been taken to develop a telescope to provide two orders of magnitude increase in sensitivity over existing facilities at meter to centimeter wavelengths.

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SKA Radio Telescope

To achieve this goal will require a telescope with one square kilometer of collecting area - one hundred times more collecting area than the Very Large Array.

The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will probe the gaseous component of the early Universe, thereby addressing fundamental questions in research on the origin and evolution of the Universe. The SKA will complement planned facilities at other wavelengths, such as ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array) and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

The SKA will be an array of individual antenna stations, synthesizing an aperture with diameter of up to several 1000 kilometers. A number of configurations are under consideration to distribute the 1 million square metres of collecting area. These include 30 stations each with the collecting area equivalent to a 200 meters diameter telescope, and 150 stations each with the collecting area of a 90 m telescope.

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