Posted on 02/05/2021 6:04:23 PM PST by nickcarraway
Are you ready for one of “the great scientific adventures of the coming decades”?
Construction of the largest and most complex radio telescope network in the world officially began today in what is being described as a “historic moment for radio astronomy.”
Designed to help astronomers answer some of astronomy’s most fundamental questions, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) was today given the go-ahead at its first council meeting at its headquarters at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire in the UK. Jodrell Bank is home to the Lovell Telescope, the world’s third-largest steerable radio telescope.
SKA is going to cost $2.2 billion—and it’s going to change astronomy.
What is radio astronomy?
It’s the study of the sky in radio frequencies. Stars, galaxies and other cosmic phenomena emit —waves of light. Visible light is electromagnetic radiation, and are radio waves, gamma rays, X-rays, and infrared. So to get a full picture of what’s out there astronomers need to use radio telescopes to detect and amplify radio waves from space.
What is the SKA?
A true “mega-science” project for the 21st-century, the SKA is astonishing in its scope. So vast, in fact, that it will see radio receivers installed on two continents and take a decade to construct.
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They’ll turn it on and all they’ll hear is elevator music.
PT Barnum is smiling.
Too bad about Arecibo. Contact is one of my favorite movies. I love this quote and have since doubled up on buying many items in case one fails-—>>>
S.R. Hadden: First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price? (John Hurt)
In honor of UFO believer and rocker extraordinaire Sammy Hagar, I petition that it be named the Big Square Inch Array Observatory. 👍 🛸
Big deal! It still doesnt get cable!
No mention of the United States joining the Square Kilometre Array membership. Maybe the Biden Regime is against space exploration.
To not believe in them means you would believe every person in the world could always identify every single object they've seen. That seems unlikely.
During the intermission of Klingon Kabuki Theatre with Special Guest appearance from The Cardassian Opera.
You are correct, sir. There has been aerial weirdness dating back to pre-Biblical times. I still require a UFO landing on the White House lawn as concrete proof, but I acknowledge that something is afoot.
Ping.
It will confirm the existing of intelligent life by tuning into the galactic shopping channel.
This is principally a South African Australian project. Numerous US facilities are participating as pathfinders: A telescope or programme carrying out SKA-related technology, science and operations activity.
Allen Telescope Array
Long Wavelength Array
Well, there’s some things we know, and there’s some things we don’t know, and then there’s some thing we know we don’t know, and other things we don’t know that we know.
Where are the pictures of aliens? There are literally billions of telephones on the planet. Where are the indisputable pics of alien aircraft? (Not UFOs)
When they see that giant eyeball looking back, they’ll finally realize we’re just a sample on a slide on a huge microscope. Thanks ct.
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