SKA artists impressions

The international SKA office has released a number of new artist's impressions, with captions, on what the components of the mega telescope, the Square Kilometre Array, may look like.

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Hi-res JPG 5.44 MB | Medium JPG 122 KB A view of the central region of the SKA. This shows the three central core areas. Surrounding this will be an area, 180 km in radius, in which will be distributed dishes and pairs of SKA-mid and and SKA-lo stations. Beyond this will lie 5 spiral arms along which will be placed dish stations each of 20 dishes. View more SKA artists impressions

MeerKAT artist impression

Hi-res JPG 6.80 MB | Medium JPG 43 KB An artist's impression of the 80 dishes of the MeerKAT radio telescope on site in the Karoo. Credit: Jeroen de Boer.