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    SKA A RADIO TELESCOPE IN THE LAND OF ANCIENT ASTRONOMERS

    Jun 01, 2016 4 minutes
    Words & Photographs: ALESSANDRO PARODI

    an ideal position in the southern hemisphere, for the KAT installation: the wide prairies, dry climate and clear skies are the perfect collocation among the flat top hillocks of the Karee Mountains of the Northern Cape, in South Africa, with very little human interference from the small village of Carnarvon close by, 560 kilometres from Cape Town. These are the ingredients for success where a significant portion of SKA will be built. The SKA (acronym for Square Kilometre Array) telescope is an international project that was started in 1991.

    South Africa and Australia were chosen for

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