It is getting harder to follow the developments in science and technology day by day. However, today, many projects are taking place to move the developments even further. One of these projects is the telescope. According to the statement, this telescope will be the largest telescope in the world with the completion of the project.
Project will test Albert Einstein’s theories
Scientific projects continue unabated. One of the latest projects is the telescope project, which has started the construction phase. The opening of the construction process of the telescope system, called the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), took place with the participation of scientists and engineers. According to the statement, when the project is completed in 2028, it will be the world’s largest radio telescope.
The center of the Square Kilometer Array, which is partly in South Africa and partly in Australia, is located in England. With the new project, SKA will tackle the biggest question in astrophysics. For this, he will test the theories of the famous theoretical physicist Albert Einstein. The telescope will also search for aliens.
Authorized committees from eight countries leading the project will attend the ceremony of the project, the construction of which started yesterday. The ceremony was held in both the Murchison region of Western Australia and the Karoo in South Africa’s North Cape. For the highly anticipated project, the general manager of the Square Kilometer Array, Prof. Phil Diamond made the following statement:
“It has been a 30-year journey. The first 10 years were spent developing concepts and ideas. The second 10 years were spent developing technology. The last 10 years have been spent designing, securing sites, getting and getting governments to agree to form a treaty organization (SKAO).”
The telescope will initially work with less than 200 parabolic antennas – dishes – and 131,000 dipole antennas. In this way, it will be possible to provide a data collection area of hundreds of thousands of square meters. It will also provide significant sensitivity and resolution when examining targets in the sky.
With all this, the system will operate at a frequency between 50 megahertz and 25 gigahertz. This allows detecting weak radio signals from cosmic fields billions of light-years from Earth. One of the SKA’s important tasks will be to track the most abundant element in the universe, hydrogen.
As the observatory’s head of science operations, Dr. Shari Breen made a statement on the subject. “The SKA will contribute to many areas of astronomy. One of these could be ‘fast radio bursts’ that have been detected. In a fraction of a second they extract the equivalent of a year’s energy from our Sun. We have no idea what these are. I hope the SKA will give an answer.”
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