AUSTRALIA UNVEILS POWERFUL RADIO TELESCOPE

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NEWS

Australia has launched one of the world's fastest telescopes tasked with surveying outer space and probing the origins of stars and galaxies.The name is Askap and forms part on the world´s biggest radio telescope project.

Important details

• The telescope cost between 155 millions to 96 millions dollars.

• Its expected to capture radio images.• The telescope is not very big but it´s still very

powerfull survey instrument to start to get a look at the origin of galaxes.

The australian westwrn desert where it´located

Localitation

• The telescope is located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, 315km (196 miles) north-east of Geraldton in the Western Australian desert.

telescope

desert

IMAGES

The telescope is made up of 36 antens

SUMMARISE:

australian telescope

it´s located at the western australian

desert

Made up of 36 antens

Still litle but powerfull

Will provide a lot of information about:

Black holesThe origin of

galaxes

It´s located in australi in the western

desert

Questions

What person create the telescope?Dr John O'Sullivan, from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationIs the telescope involved in any project?Yes , in the SKA , a future project made by new Zealand, south Africa and Australia.

Images from the telescope that make a resume.