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Australia launches one of the world’s fastest telescopes
Costing almost €120million, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (Askap) is launched in Australia as part of world’s biggest radio telescope project.
The telescope has 36 antennas each measuring a diameter of 12 metres (40 feet)
Australia launched one of the world’s fastest telescopes intended to survey outer space and probe the origins of stars and galaxies.
With 36 antennas each measuring a diameter of 12 metres (40 feet), the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (Askap) cost A$152million (almost €120million).
The telescope is expected to capture radio images and forms part of the world’s biggest radio telescope project.
Askap is located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in the Western Australian desert and while not considered very big by Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, it is “very powerful”.
Looking for black holes will form part of the research projects and the telescope will be able to scan the sky much faster than existing telescopes with limited interference from man-made radio signals.
