{"id":13450,"date":"2022-12-09T03:13:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T08:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/?p=13450"},"modified":"2022-12-09T03:13:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T08:13:51","slug":"australia-starts-building-momentous-radio-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/2022\/12\/09\/australia-starts-building-momentous-radio-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia starts building &#8216;momentous&#8217; radio telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australia on Monday started building a vast network of antennas in the Outback, its section of what planners say will eventually become one of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When complete, the antennas in Australia and a network of dishes in South Africa will form the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), a massive instrument that will aim to untangle mysteries about the creation of stars, galaxies and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/extraterrestrial+life\/\">extraterrestrial life<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/telescope\/\">telescope<\/a>&nbsp;was first conceived in the early 1990s, but the project was plagued by delays, funding issues and diplomatic jockeying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SKA Observatory&#8217;s Director-General Philip Diamond described the beginning of its construction as &#8220;momentous&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The telescope &#8220;will be one of humanity&#8217;s biggest-ever scientific endeavors&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its name is based on the planners&#8217; original aim, a telescope that could observe a one-square-kilometer surface, but the current South African and Australian sections will have a combined collecting area of just under half that, according to the observatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more &#8211; Phys.org: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia on Monday started building a vast network of antennas in the Outback, its section&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_16139062_16139062":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[2765,95,73],"tags":[3431,32,956,3430,102,876],"class_list":["post-13450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy","category-international","category-space","tag-array","tag-australia","tag-radio-telescope","tag-ska","tag-south-africa","tag-telescope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13452,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13450\/revisions\/13452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}