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.
News
The night sky in a supercomputer
By Jana Winkler, University of Basel Original article Looking into space is the same as looking into the universe’s past. […]
Sustainable technology for SKACH
EcoCloud is getting ready for exorbitant amounts of data The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) is a radio-astronomy project that […]
Ask the experts: How CSCS supports SKA with supercomputing infrastructure “Alps” and knowhow on writing scientific libraries
By Simone Ulmer, CSCS. Original article The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), currently under construction in South Africa and Australia, […]
SKA Observatory celebrates start of telescope
construction in Australia and South Africa
In ceremonies at both sites in Australia and South Africa, the SKA Observatory celebrated the start of construction of its […]
An immersion in galaxies of data to explore the cosmos
The new exhibition produced by EPFL Pavilions transforms the scientific inquiry of astrophysics into sensory and emotional experiences. Until February […]
Probing the physical processes in the interstellar medium of galaxies at ‘Cosmic Noon’ with SKA
The Square Kilometer Array (SKA), construction of which has begun this year, will soon be the largest radio telescope in […]
Radio astronomy to foster Swiss research and industry
By becoming a member of the SKA Observatory (SKAO), the largest and most ambitious radio astronomy collaboration in the world, […]
Switzerland has officially joined the Square Kilometre Array Observatory SKAO
Switzerland has become the eighth country to join the intergovernmental nations that will collaborate in building the Square Kilometre Array […]
EPFL joins the giant radio telescope SKA for the Swiss community
The Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, will be the biggest radio telescope ever built. Thanks to this ambitious tool, some […]
Swiss Academics join forces with the SKAO
Prof. Schaerer of the University of Geneva, Prof. Kneib and Dr. Küttel of EPFL discuss the future of the Square […]
SKA Switzerland
Switzerland is proud to be a part of this revolutionary international observatory!