Dual sites for the SKA radio telescope

摘要

On 25 May the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project announced that the two contenders to host the world's largest, most sensitive, radio telescope would share the honor. Broadly, the split will be by frequency, with South Africa and its neighbors hosting the SKA's mid-frequency antennas, and Australia, partnering with New Zealand, covering low frequencies. The decision was reached by the project's other member countries: Canada, China, Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK. Notably absent from the collaboration is the US, which the project hopes will join later.