When completed, the SKA will become the world's most powerful radio telescope.

The construction of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), one of the major scientific projects of the 21st century, began on Monday. The BBC reported that when completed in 2028, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will become the world's largest. will be the largest radio telescope ever. Headquartered in the UK and extending to South Africa and Australia, the facility will help solve the biggest questions in astrophysics. Will also search for things outside.

Delegations from the eight countries leading the project are attending celebrations in the remote Murchison Shire of Western Australia and the Karoo in South Africa's Northern Cape, according to the BBC.

Prof Phil Diamond, Director General of the Square Kilometer Array Organisation, said, “This is the moment it is really happening.

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He told BBC News, “It has been a journey of 30 years.

The first 10 years were all about developing concepts and ideas.

The second 10 years were spent doing technology development and then the last decade was about detailed design, securing sites, agreeing with governments to set up a treaty organization (SKAO) and providing funding to start the project.

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The telescope's initial architecture will include no less than 200 parabolic antennas, or "umbrellas", as well as 131,000 dipole antennas, which look like Christmas trees.

Its purpose is to create an effective collection area of ​​hundreds of thousands of square meters.

This will give the SKA unparalleled sensitivity and resolution as it probes targets in the sky.

The system will operate in a frequency range from roughly 50 MHz to eventually 25 GHz.

This enables the telescope to detect extremely faint radio signals coming from cosmic sources billions of light-years away from Earth, including those emitted in the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang.

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