The world’s largest radio telescope you’ll find in Africa
As from 2018, the world’s largest telescope will be located in South-Africa and Australia, with additional dishes in Ghana, Zambia, Madagascar, Botswana, Namibia, Kenya, Mauritius and Mozambique.
The telescope “will be tens of times more sensitive and hundreds of times faster at mapping the sky than today’s best radio telescopes. […] We will be able to see bright galaxies up to 13 billion light years away. We will be able to see a galaxy like our Milky Way five billion light years away: the light that we see in these images left that galaxy before our earth had even formed.”
“With this information we will be able to explore how galaxies formed billions of years ago and how they have evolved up to the present day. Understanding this is key to answering long-standing questions like how our galaxy and Earth came to exist.”
The project is “one of the world’s largest collaborative science projects: […] There are hundreds of scientists — many of them from Africa, and especially South Africa– and more than 100 institutions involved in the project, from 20 countries across six continents.”
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