Want a job?
We’ll need a huge range of people for the SKA. Still in school? Here’s what you can study to get a job with the telescope. More...
Educators
We’ve got lesson plans and curriculum links that’ll help you teach astronomy and the SKA to your class. More...
Get Involved
Construction on the SKA is going on until 2020 but you don’t have to wait ‘til then! Check out the SKA events taking place across Australia, New Zealand and around the world. More...
Are we alone? How do galaxies form? Was Einstein right? What should we look for?
The SKA is going to need a lot of energy to run its systems. How should we power it?
We already have lots of radio telescopes, but the SKA is going to be the biggest. Do we need it?
An image from the Hubble Space Telescope of NGC 6543, nicknamed the "Cat's Eye Nebula”. Estimated to be 1,000 years old, the nebula is a visual "fossil record" of a dying star. Photo: NASA
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An artist’s impression of 15 m dishes with focal plane radio cameras that may make up the Square Kilometre Array. Photo: Chris Fluke, Swinburne Univ. of Technology
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Tracks of the stars passing over the CSIRO Australia Telescope Compact Array. The array is at the Paul Wild Observatory at Narrabri NSW. Photo: Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez, CSIRO / ATNF
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The beautiful 64 m CSIRO Parkes Dish radio telescope at Parkes NSW. Its geodetic design was conceived by Barnes Wallis, famous for the Bouncing Bomb of the “dambusters” raids in WWII. Photo: Em Blamey, Questacon
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