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Square Kilometre Array
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is an intergovernmental organisation, intergovernmental international radio telescope project being built in Australia (low-frequency) and South Africa (mid-frequency). The combining infrastructure, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), and headquarters, are located at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in the United Kingdom. The SKA cores are being built in the southern hemisphere, where the view of the Milky Way galaxy is the best and radio interference is at its least. Conceived in the 1990s, and further developed and designed by the late-2010s, when completed a total collecting area of approximately one square kilometre. It will operate over a wide range of frequencies and its size will make it 50 times more sensitive than any other radio instrument. If built as planned, it should be able to Astronomical survey, survey the sky more than ten thousand times faster than before. With receiving stations extending out to a distance of at least ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meerkat National Park
Meerkat National Park is a large South African National Parks, National Park in the Northern Cape, South Africa, that encompasses the Square Kilometre Array's MeerKAT, Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization, PAPER and Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array, HERA telescopes. The park only allows visitors on preselect days during the year. History The National Research Foundation (South Africa), National Research Foundation purchased privately owned rangeland, removed livestock from the area and placed it under the protection of South African National Parks, SANParks. In 2020, this park was declared in partnership with the National Research Foundation and the Square Kilometre Array project. It added 3.4% to South Africa's national parks. Objectives In addition to hosting the Square Kilometre Array and other astronomical research projects, the National Research Foundation's South African Environmental Observation Network will seek to study large-scale manageme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
