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RADIO TELESCOPE
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1-News
2-important details
3-localitation
4-images
5-summarise
6-questions
2. 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.
3. 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.
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desert where it´located
4. Localitation
• The telescope is located at the Murchison
Radio-astronomy Observatory, 315km (196
miles) north-east of Geraldton in the Western
Australian desert.
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7. Questions
What person create the telescope?
Dr John O'Sullivan, from Australia's
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation
Is the telescope involved in any project?
Yes , in the SKA , a future project made by
new Zealand, south Africa and Australia.