Construction Begins on the Square Kilometer Array - by ScottyJ_PhD
Six other countries have signed on to SKAO as partners: China, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, with several other nations considering membership in the coming years.
First envisioned in the early 1990s, SKAO as a concept has been in development for decades, so today’s ceremony was a long time coming for many of the researchers involved. The science goals for SKAO are as ambitious as the construction project itself. While astronomers from any country will be able to apply for observing time, much of the telescope’s initial observation period will be dedicated to a set of pre-determinedCosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization
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