About the SKAO
Two telescopes are under construction, one in South Africa and one in Australia.
These installations will combine the signals received from thousands of small antennae spread over a distance of several thousand kilometres to simulate a single giant radio telescope capable of extremely high sensitivity and angular resolution, using a technique called aperture synthesis. Some of the sub-arrays of the SKA will also have a very large field-of-view (FOV), making it possible to survey very large areas of sky at once.
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Fun couple of days at the #BreakthroughListen meeting at #SKAO this week, hearing how astronomers are searching for evidence of #technosignatures 👽 🛸 (we haven’t found any yet). The best bit? The final day pick n mix selection included UFOs…! 😁
An interesting event for your calendars at the Royal Society in London in April next year. Both in person and online attendance are being offered. #cosmology
Last call! The postdoc position I'm advertising has an application deadline of this Thursday (16 Nov) -- if you want to get stuck in to working with SKAO pathfinders like LOFAR and uGMRT, with opportunities to travel to India, don't let this one pass you by!
SKA Switzerland
Mathieu Isidro addressed the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, on behalf of SKA Observatory, to advocate for the sustainable use of