Welcome to our WA Observatory, SKA-Low. 😍

This week we celebrated the start of construction of one of the biggest ever radio telescopes at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, our Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, on Wajarri Country in Western Australia.

The international SKA Observatory is building two telescopes: SKA-Low in Australia and SKA-Mid in South Africa. The two telescopes will combine to make the largest radio observatory in the world.

Learn about our new arrival: http://spr.ly/61853DlvU

📷 | DISR

SKA-Low will be unique, made up of more than 130,000 Christmas tree-shaped antennas (like the ones animated in the video above). The antennas will be grouped in ‘stations’ of 256, and the entire SKA-Low telescope will have 512 stations.

They’ll spread over our radio astronomy observatory in Western Australia (WA) in a spiral pattern. The longest stretch between antenna stations will be 74 kilometres.

mollwollfumble said:

Welcome to our WA Observatory, SKA-Low. 😍

This week we celebrated the start of construction of one of the biggest ever radio telescopes at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, our Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, on Wajarri Country in Western Australia.

The international SKA Observatory is building two telescopes: SKA-Low in Australia and SKA-Mid in South Africa. The two telescopes will combine to make the largest radio observatory in the world.

Learn about our new arrival: http://spr.ly/61853DlvU

📷 | DISR

SKA-Low will be unique, made up of more than 130,000 Christmas tree-shaped antennas (like the ones animated in the video above). The antennas will be grouped in ‘stations’ of 256, and the entire SKA-Low telescope will have 512 stations.

They’ll spread over our radio astronomy observatory in Western Australia (WA) in a spiral pattern. The longest stretch between antenna stations will be 74 kilometres.