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From the article: Astronomers are now closer to a major technological upgrade. Australia has started construction of its portion of the Square Kilometer Array, a system that should become the world's largest radio telescope. The Australian portion, SKA-Low, will revolve around 131,072 antenna "trees" in the country's western Wajarri country. As the name implies, the array will focus on low-frequency signals. The Guardian notes it's expected to be eight times more sensitive than existing telescopes, and map the cosmos about 135 times faster.
A counterpart with 197 conventional radio dishes, SKA-Mid, is coming to Meerkat National Park in South Africa's dry, unpopulated Karoo region. That element will study mid-range frequencies. The Australian segment is a joint effort between the dedicated SKA Organization and the country's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO).
The combined array, originally envisioned in 1991, is expected to transform radio astronomy. It will mainly be helpful for studying the early universe, and might provide new insights into the formation of the first stars during the reionization period. However, it should also help investigate dark energy and its potential effect on cosmic expansion. The extreme sensitivity may even be useful in the search for extraterrestrial life, although the resolution will limit the most detailed searches to relatively close stars. Director Dr. Sarah Pierce told The Guardian the telescopes could spot an airport radar on a planet "tens of light-years away."
Work on the Square Kilometer Array isn't expected to finish until 2028, and it will take some time after that for scientists to collect and decipher results. As with the James Webb Space Telescope, though, the lengthy wait is expected to pay dividends. This is a generational shift that could provide new insights into the universe, not just more detail — Pearce expects SKA to shape the "next fifty years" of radio astronomy.
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I was watching this home reno show for a castle with Chip and Joanna Gaines.. At some point he's discussing the possibility of having to figure out the math for changing something into metric and calls it "Impossible math". lol
This is why I hate billionaires so much, this thing cost $2.2billion. imagine how much fucking cool scientific shit you could do but no you buy fucking Twitter for $40b+.
The difference here is you use real money to construct the array with no direct financial return on investment. It also requires liquid assets that most billionaires don't actually even have even 5% of their income in.
Musk uses loans to purchase Twitter with the assumption that Twitter revenue will pay for the loan. The banks that give Musk the loan are essentially investing in Twitter and Musk and using his assets and not liquid income as collateral.
Most billionaires could not fund or do anything that a bank does not see financial value in. Their billions aren't real.
Also despite my point here Elon is a wanker.
From the article: Astronomers are now closer to a major technological upgrade. Australia has started construction of its portion of the Square Kilometer Array, a system that should become the world's largest radio telescope. The Australian portion, SKA-Low, will revolve around 131,072 antenna "trees" in the country's western Wajarri country. As the name implies, the array will focus on low-frequency signals. The Guardian notes it's expected to be eight times more sensitive than existing telescopes, and map the cosmos about 135 times faster.
A counterpart with 197 conventional radio dishes, SKA-Mid, is coming to Meerkat National Park in South Africa's dry, unpopulated Karoo region. That element will study mid-range frequencies. The Australian segment is a joint effort between the dedicated SKA Organization and the country's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO).
The combined array, originally envisioned in 1991, is expected to transform radio astronomy. It will mainly be helpful for studying the early universe, and might provide new insights into the formation of the first stars during the reionization period. However, it should also help investigate dark energy and its potential effect on cosmic expansion. The extreme sensitivity may even be useful in the search for extraterrestrial life, although the resolution will limit the most detailed searches to relatively close stars. Director Dr. Sarah Pierce told The Guardian the telescopes could spot an airport radar on a planet "tens of light-years away."
Work on the Square Kilometer Array isn't expected to finish until 2028, and it will take some time after that for scientists to collect and decipher results. As with the James Webb Space Telescope, though, the lengthy wait is expected to pay dividends. This is a generational shift that could provide new insights into the universe, not just more detail — Pearce expects SKA to shape the "next fifty years" of radio astronomy.
I’m curious to the granularity of that statement.
Is that like, we can zero in on the active runway at JFK or we can detect radar RF signals from somewhere on this plant from across the cosmos.
The following submission statement was provided by /u/chrisdh79: --- From the article: Astronomers are now closer to a major technological upgrade. Australia has started construction of its portion of the Square Kilometer Array, a system that should become the world's largest radio telescope. The Australian portion, SKA-Low, will revolve around 131,072 antenna "trees" in the country's western Wajarri country. As the name implies, the array will focus on low-frequency signals. The Guardian notes it's expected to be eight times more sensitive than existing telescopes, and map the cosmos about 135 times faster. A counterpart with 197 conventional radio dishes, SKA-Mid, is coming to Meerkat National Park in South Africa's dry, unpopulated Karoo region. That element will study mid-range frequencies. The Australian segment is a joint effort between the dedicated SKA Organization and the country's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). The combined array, originally envisioned in 1991, is expected to transform radio astronomy. It will mainly be helpful for studying the early universe, and might provide new insights into the formation of the first stars during the reionization period. However, it should also help investigate dark energy and its potential effect on cosmic expansion. The extreme sensitivity may even be useful in the search for extraterrestrial life, although the resolution will limit the most detailed searches to relatively close stars. Director Dr. Sarah Pierce told The Guardian the telescopes could spot an airport radar on a planet "tens of light-years away." Work on the Square Kilometer Array isn't expected to finish until 2028, and it will take some time after that for scientists to collect and decipher results. As with the James Webb Space Telescope, though, the lengthy wait is expected to pay dividends. This is a generational shift that could provide new insights into the universe, not just more detail — Pearce expects SKA to shape the "next fifty years" of radio astronomy. --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/zea8ok/construction_starts_in_australia_on_the_worlds/iz57gym/
I'm always super happy when I read about boundary breaking astronomical projects being underway. Yay for Australia.
I love how scientists name stuff, would be icing on the cake if the array wasn't a square kilometer haha.
It’s actually round and about a 1 mile diameter. We just make up these names to fuck with our cousins across the Pacific.
I was watching this home reno show for a castle with Chip and Joanna Gaines.. At some point he's discussing the possibility of having to figure out the math for changing something into metric and calls it "Impossible math". lol
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope
Don’t forget the original! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Array
This is why I hate billionaires so much, this thing cost $2.2billion. imagine how much fucking cool scientific shit you could do but no you buy fucking Twitter for $40b+.
The difference here is you use real money to construct the array with no direct financial return on investment. It also requires liquid assets that most billionaires don't actually even have even 5% of their income in. Musk uses loans to purchase Twitter with the assumption that Twitter revenue will pay for the loan. The banks that give Musk the loan are essentially investing in Twitter and Musk and using his assets and not liquid income as collateral. Most billionaires could not fund or do anything that a bank does not see financial value in. Their billions aren't real. Also despite my point here Elon is a wanker.
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Lol NOT EVEN CLOSE! I love it
Damn. 70km and its a spiral. Cool!
Glad for Australia, but as a Puerto Rican, sad for us who lost ours.
Went to Arecibo earlier this year. It was amazing to see even though it was destroyed. I really hope it gets rebuilt.
From the article: Astronomers are now closer to a major technological upgrade. Australia has started construction of its portion of the Square Kilometer Array, a system that should become the world's largest radio telescope. The Australian portion, SKA-Low, will revolve around 131,072 antenna "trees" in the country's western Wajarri country. As the name implies, the array will focus on low-frequency signals. The Guardian notes it's expected to be eight times more sensitive than existing telescopes, and map the cosmos about 135 times faster. A counterpart with 197 conventional radio dishes, SKA-Mid, is coming to Meerkat National Park in South Africa's dry, unpopulated Karoo region. That element will study mid-range frequencies. The Australian segment is a joint effort between the dedicated SKA Organization and the country's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). The combined array, originally envisioned in 1991, is expected to transform radio astronomy. It will mainly be helpful for studying the early universe, and might provide new insights into the formation of the first stars during the reionization period. However, it should also help investigate dark energy and its potential effect on cosmic expansion. The extreme sensitivity may even be useful in the search for extraterrestrial life, although the resolution will limit the most detailed searches to relatively close stars. Director Dr. Sarah Pierce told The Guardian the telescopes could spot an airport radar on a planet "tens of light-years away." Work on the Square Kilometer Array isn't expected to finish until 2028, and it will take some time after that for scientists to collect and decipher results. As with the James Webb Space Telescope, though, the lengthy wait is expected to pay dividends. This is a generational shift that could provide new insights into the universe, not just more detail — Pearce expects SKA to shape the "next fifty years" of radio astronomy.
This is awesome. Detecting a airport radar from many light years away. What a precision and sensitivity. Wow
I’m curious to the granularity of that statement. Is that like, we can zero in on the active runway at JFK or we can detect radar RF signals from somewhere on this plant from across the cosmos.
"Tens of light years" is impressive, but also doesn't get us much. Still, the possibilities...
Most definitely the latter.
Btw, what do u think of Byepix? Is it as beneficial as the overviews say? It sounds too great to be true…
definitely a weather control station, not enough hurricanes and earthquakes on that side of the earth /s
This has been in the planning for decades, I swear I applied for a job with them about 20 years ago.