Switzerland involved in the SKA (Square Kilometer Array) observatory project

Switzerland involved in the SKA observatory project

News: Switzerland involved in the SKA observatory project

Recently Switzerland has joined the SKA observatory project. With this, it has become the eighth country to join the intergovernmental founding nations of this observatory.

These founding countries will support the construction of the SKAO (Square Kilometer Array Observatory) to be built in Australia and South Africa.

Significantly, SKAO is a project to build the world's largest radio telescope; this radio telescope can detect invisible gases in the universe and can also give information about the areas surrounded by cosmic dust of space.

This telescope will also enable astronomers to observe cosmic expansion. This observatory will enable astronomers to survey the entire sky faster than any system currently in existence.

The operation, maintenance, and construction of this telescope will be overseen by SKAO. The estimated cost of SKAO's construction by 2021–2029 is approximately EUR 2 billion.

SKAO is a new intergovernmental organization dedicated to radio astronomy, with SKAO headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Switzerland joins SKAO's three host countries as founding member countries, with Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, France, and China as its other member states.

The three host countries of SKAO are the United Kingdom, Australia, and South Africa.

 

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