{"id":108690,"date":"2021-02-12T08:49:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T08:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=108690"},"modified":"2021-02-12T08:49:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T08:49:25","slug":"square-kilometre-array-worlds-largest-radio-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/square-kilometre-array-worlds-largest-radio-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Kilometre Array, world\u2019s largest radio telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Square Kilometre Array, the world\u2019s largest radio telescope is being setup in which of the following pair of countries?<br><\/strong>a) India- Australia<br>b) Japan- India<br>c) South Africa- Australia<br>d) USA- UK<br><strong>Answer: (c)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 04 February 2021, SKAO Council in its maiden meeting has approved the establishment of the world\u2019s largest radio telescope.<\/li><li>It should be known that the SKAO stands for the Square Kilometre Array Observatory.<\/li><li>The Square Kilometer Array is an intergovernmental radio telescope project that is being built in Australia and South Africa.<\/li><li>SKAO also represents a new intergovernmental organisation dedicated to radio astronomy and is headquartered in the UK.<\/li><li>At the moment, organisations from ten countries are a part of the SKAO.<\/li><li>These include Australia, Canada, China, India, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK.<\/li><li>Unlike optical telescopes, radio telescopes can detect invisible gas and, therefore, they can reveal areas of space that may be obscured by cosmic dust.<\/li><li>It is to be noted that, the first radio signals from outer space were significantly, detected by physicist Karl Jansky in the 1930s.<\/li><li>Since then Astronomers have used radio telescopes to detect radio waves emitted by different objects in the universe and explore it.<\/li><li>According to NASA, the field of radio astronomy evolved after World War II and became one of the most important tools for making astronomical observations since.<\/li><li>The Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, which was the second-largest single-dish radio telescope in the world, collapsed in December 2020.<\/li><li>The Arecibo telescope was built in 1963 and because of its powerful radar; scientists employed it to observe planets, asteroids and the ionosphere.<\/li><li>Scientists made several discoveries with Arecibo telescope over the decades, including finding prebiotic molecules in distant galaxies, the first exoplanets, and the first-millisecond pulsar.<\/li><li><strong>About the SKA telescope:-<\/strong><\/li><li>The Square Kilometer Array telescope proposed to be the largest radio telescope in the world.<\/li><li>It will be located in Africa and Australia, and whose operation, maintenance and construction will be overseen by SKAO.<\/li><li>The completion is expected to take nearly a decade at a cost of over \u00a31.8 billion.<\/li><li>The important information to be revealed using SKAO:-<\/li><li>Some of the included questions that scientists hope to address using this telescope are-<\/li><li>How the universe began to form?<\/li><li>When and how the first stars were born?<\/li><li>The life-cycle of a galaxy.<\/li><li>Exploring the possibility of detecting technologically-active civilisations elsewhere in our galaxy.<\/li><li>Understanding where gravitational waves come from.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; Rajesh Tripathi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-what-is-square-kilometre-array-the-worlds-largest-radio-telescope-7174881\/\">https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-what-is-square-kilometre-array-the-worlds-largest-radio-telescope-7174881\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-55933958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-55933958<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Square Kilometre Array, the world\u2019s largest radio telescope is being setup in which of the following pair of countries?a) India- Australiab) Japan- Indiac) South Africa- Australiad) USA- UKAnswer: (c)Related Facts:- On 04 February 2021, SKAO Council in its maiden meeting has approved the establishment of the world\u2019s largest radio telescope. 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