SKA pathfinder Apertif officially opened in the Netherlands
Apertif, a major upgrade to the iconic Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WRST), has been opened at a ceremony in the Netherlands.
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Indian-led Telescope Manager consortium concludes design work on SKA
After four and a half years, the international Telescope Manager (TM) consortium has formally concluded its work on the architectural design of a fundamental part of the software for the SKA: the nervous system of the Observatory.
French consortium joins SKA Organisation
A consortium of French research institutions and industry has become the 12th member of the SKA Organisation following approval of its accession by the SKA Board of Directors.
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Latest issue of the SKAO eNews now available
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Outcomes Of The 27th SKA Board Meeting
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Latest issue of the SKAO Bulletin now available
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Team SKA - Meet system engineer Rodrigo Olguin
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- The General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union to be hosted on African soil for the first time in 2024 - AlphaGalileo (UK)
- The Rebirth of Radio Astronomy - Wired (USA)
- Billion-dollar telescopes could end up beyond the reach of US astronomers - Nature (USA)
- There are two super-telescopes in which Portugal participates - Publico (Portugal)
- Ambitious new Innovation Partnerships with African countries - The Asian Independent (UK)
- Australia and India collaborate on world's largest telescope project - SBS (Australia)
- ‘The roots of modern astronomy were laid in India’ - Sakal Times (India)
- China Built the World’s Largest Telescope. Then Came the Tourists - Wired (USA)
- How does a radio telescope work? - Cosmos Magazine (USA)
- Solving the challenges of active space debris - SciTech Europa (Europe)
- China Built the World’s Largest Telescope. Then Came the Tourists - Wired (USA)
- SKA radio telescope: a very terrestrial project to study the universe - EFE Futuro (Spain)
- SKA telescope: France joins the SKA organization - Futura Sciences (Spain)
- Telescope Manager consortium concluded its work on the architectural design of a fundamental part of the software for the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope - EuropaWire (Europe)
- Reaching for stars: India is betting in mega, multi-country science projects - EconomicTimes (India)
- The Square Kilometre Array: One massive radio telescope - CNET (video)
- A New Way To Measure The Speed Of Our Galaxy Through The Cosmos - Forbes (USA)
- Granada, in the elite of science - GranadaHoy (Granada)
- Like a car aerial: tuning in from the quietest place on the planet - The Age (Australia)
- IceCube blazar neutrino detection: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR - ICRAR (Australia)
- Neutrino observation points to one source of high-energy cosmic rays - NSF (USA)
- 60-Second Astro News: Must-See Images of the Week: MeerKAT Unveils Clearest View of Galactic Center - Sky & Telescope (USA)
- MeerKAT radio telescope inaugurated in South Africa – reveals clearest view yet of centre of the Milky Way - SKA SA (South Africa)
- Launch of the MeerKAT Telescope - eNCA (South Africa)
- Radio telescopes show theory of gravity holds in extreme situations - Yahoo! (USA)
- Outback Astronomy, The Sky at Night - BBC (UK)
- BLUEDOT BRINGS A UNIVERSE OF CULTURE TO JODRELL BANK IN LESS THAN A MONTH - Vents Magazine (UK)
- CERN's Maria Girone: "We explain the magic!" - Top500 (USA)
- SADC Ministers responsible for Education and Training and Science Technology and Innovation Ministerial Policy Dialogue - SADC (South Africa)
- The 6 Best Places to Stargaze in Australia - National Geographic (USA)
- Astronomers are campaigning for Swiss participation in an intercontinental radio telescope - NZZ (Switzerland)
- Astronomers See Distant Eruption as Black Hole Destroys Star - About Manchester (UK)
- Next-gen optical disk set to take stock of power hungry data centres - PACE Today (Australia)
- Swedish Receiver to Capture Cosmic Waves in the World’s Largest Radio Telescope - STRN (USA)
- New radio telescope in South Africa will study galaxy formation - Science (USA)
- SKA Observatory: Spain is already in its international organization - Efe : Futuro (Spain)
- Move Over, China: U.S. Is Again Home to World’s Speediest Supercomputer - NY Times (USA)
- Dark Inflation Opens Up a Gravitational Window Onto the First Moments After the Big Bang - AstroWatch (USA)
- A New Experiment to Understand Dark Matter - SpaceRef (USA)
- ASTRON takes first step to Science Data Center - Astron (The Netherlands)
- Why Australia's commercial space industry remains earthbound - CapitalBay (Australia)
- Drawing constellations in the global space sector | Sarah Pearce - CSIROscope (Australia)
- Australia becomes the second country to initial the SKA Observatory Convention in Rome - SKA Organisation (UK)
- Is cultural knowledge more important than language skills? BBC (UK)
- Pawsey to collaborate with Europe's supercomputing infrastructure group PRACE - CIO (Australia)
- Curiosity is every engineer’s best asset – here’s why - CreateDigital (UK)
- China's CETC signs agreement to research at Britain's Jodrell Bank radio telescope - GlobalTimes (China)
- Dark inflation opens up a gravitational window onto the first moments after the Big Bang - ScienceDaily (USA)
- How open source supports CERN's Large Hadron Collider - TechWorld (Australia)
- ICRAR researcher named in ABC’s Top 5 scientists for 2018 - ICRAR (Australia)
- The Drent Astron goes on an adventure in Australia - DVLN (The Netherlands)
- China sets up new laboratory for FAST telescope - China.Org (China)
- Scientists to use the Square Kilometre Array to gain information - SABC Digital News (South Africa)
- How the world is coming together to build a time machine | Mathieu Isidro | - TEDx (UK)
- How the SKA Telescope Is Boosting South Africa's Knowledge Economy - AllAfrica (South Africa)
- It could be you: National Lottery hands £16m to England's Jodrell Bank - The Register (UK)
- Africa's science infrastructure gap - ABC (Australia)
- Rival giant telescopes join forces to seek U.S. funding - ScienceMag (USA)
- SKA: The new eye of the cosmos - Malaga Hoy (Spain)
- The quantum internet is already being built - Cosmos Magazine (USA)
- This 3D Color Map of 1.7 Billion Stars in the Milky Way Is the Best Ever Made - Space.com (USA)
- Major upgrade helps prepare for world's largest telescope - Dept of Industry, Innovation and Science (Australia)
- SKA 'time machine' will be able to detect formation of first stars, galaxies - Horizon Magazine (Belgium)
- Irreproducible astronomy - Physics Today (USA)
- Exploring the hidden nuclei of galaxies - Chalmers (Sweden)
- STFC Impact Report - STFC (UK)
- Outback radio telescope listens in on interstellar visitor - SciMex (Australia)
- Astronomers Have Detected the Brightest Fast Radio Burst Ever Seen. Still No Idea What’s Causing Them - Before It's News (USA)
- Scientists keen to use MeerKAT data deluge - BusinessDay (South Africa)
- Professor Stephen Hawking 1942 - 2018 - Cambridge University (UK)
- Scientists have detected a signal from the earliest stars - Tech Explorist (USA)
- A massive radio telescope for seeing the invisible - Tech Explorist (USA)
- All disk galaxies rotate once every billion years - Astronomy (USA)
- From digital simulation to the first image - La Recherche (France)
- Steve, a Famous Northern Light, Stays Mysterious (and Keeps His Name) - The New York Times (USA)
- A Square Kilometre of Science - ScienceNode (USA)
- Scientists uncover a signal sent out by the first stars in the universe - Yahoo! (USA)
- INAF is the leader of large global astronomical infrastructures - Meteoweb (Italy)
- Inauguration of European Regional Office of Astronomy for Development - Eurekalert (USA)
- Interview: Nasa’s Jim Adams on aliens, Mars, the SKA and more - TechCentral (South Africa)
- Government | Vice Minister Huang Wei Meets with Phillip Diamond, Director General of the Organization of the Sky-Radial Array Telescope - MOST (China)
- South African minister Naledi Pandor as Honorary Professor to Leiden - Universiteit Leiden (The Netherlands)
- Minister Naledi Pandor: Debate on State of the Nation Address - Public Now (USA)
- Cyril Ramaphosa To Set Up Digital Commission, Allocate Spectrum - AFK Insider (South Africa)
- NRAO Contracts for Specialized Integrated Circuit for New Radio Telescope - Press Release Point (USA)
- UWA's future leaders awarded Westpac scholarships - Uni. of Western Australia (Australia)
- The Next Generation of Radio Astronomy - University Observer (Ireland)
- HOMER Pro: Helping to Build the World’s Largest Radio Telescope - Microgrid (USA)
- Deluge of astronomical data will soon hit South Africa - Nature (USA)
- A quantum leap in precision - Hanser Konstrucktion (Germany)
- Manufacturing a radio telescope - The first SKA prototype dish
- The universe's oldest sounds will soon be recorded by the world's largest radio telescope array - International Business Times (UK)
- South Africa’s new signal “dead-zone” - FarmingPortal (South Africa)
- Guizhou applies to set up SKA Asian center - ChinaDaily (China)
- Elon Musk's Falcon Heavy rocket launches successfully - BBC News (UK)
- UK puts forward Jodrell Bank Observatory as 2019 World Heritage nomination - Gov.uk (UK)
- UK’s Jisc Delivers World’s First 400G National Research and Education Network with Ciena - Ciena.com (UK)
- 'Super blue blood Moon' seen around the world - BBC News (UK)
- Bluedot Festival announce line-up - The Mancunion (UK)
- Making the Most Detailed Radio Map of the Milky Way - NAOJ (Japan)
- Science Diplomacy: A Pragmatic Perspective from the Inside - Science & Diplomacy (USA)
- The Rise of Astro Tourism in Southern Africa - Freedom and Safety (USA)
- Ask Ethan: What Does The Future Of Science Look Like? - Forbes (USA)
- The Karoo: Small Towns, New Future - Business Media Mags (South Africa)
- What Happens If China Makes First Contact? - The Atlantic (USA)
- Astronomers Trace Fast Radio Bursts to Extreme Cosmic Neighborhood - Wired (USA)
- Visible and Infrared Visualization of the Orion Nebula - HubbleSite (USA)
- We want to promote Africa as a science-intent continent— Naledi Pandor - Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
- How environment curbs may impede siting of SKA dishes - BusinessDay (South Africa)
- University of Toronto Astronomers Receive $23M in Funding - Photonics Media (USA)
- Industrial Strategy: Building a Britain fit for the future - UK Government (UK)
- Far From Radio Interference, the Square Kilometre Array Takes Root in South Africa and the Australian Outback - IEEE Spectrum (USA)
- A Mysterious Galactic Glow Hints at Hidden Pulsars - Wired (USA)
- What Good Is a Supercomputer If It Can't Show Off? - Wired (USA)
- German implication in FAST telescope - ZDF Public (Germany)
- Australian scientists capture Milky Way as it eats another galaxy - The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
- Fly though the Universe with the GAMA survey - Australia's Science Channel (Australia)
- French radio telescope to peer into the universe’s ‘dark age’
- Fifty years ago Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars and changed our view of the universe - CSIROscope (Australia)
- How scientists' search for aliens is getting more advanced than ever - SYFY Wire (USA)
- Chancellor announces £4m for historic Jodrell Bank - University of Manchester (UK)
- MeerKAT ready to go live by March - IT Web (South Africa)
- Getting in sync with the SKA - Australia's Science Channel (Australia)
- SC17 Keynote – HPC Powers SKA Efforts to Peer Deep into the Cosmos - HPCWire (USA)
- Major milestone for key radio-astronomy project - Curtin University (Australia)
- ESnet upgrades transatlantic submarine network links - LightWave (USA)
- SKA site doubles as environmental observatory - Engineering News (South Africa)
- South Africa: Cabinet Welcomes SKA Achievements - AllAfrica (South Africa)
- Square Kilometre Array Project Takes Center Stage at SC17 - Top500 (USA)
- 100 Women: Seven trailblazing women in science - BBC News (UK)
- Q&A: A force behind new dynamics in South African science - SciDev (South Africa)
- World super "eye" to listen to the universe "heartbeat" - Anhui News (China)
- India, South Africa tracing evolution of galaxies - The Economic Times (India)
- DDN Powers Radio Astronomy at Pawsey Centre in Australia - Inside HPC (USA)
- What’s the Difference Between Data Science and Statistics? - Priceonomics (USA)
- Looking ahead to the Square Kilometer Array - Astronomy (USA)
- Is there anybody out there? - The Planetary Society (US)
- The Square Kilometer Array will be the largest scientific infrastructure ever built - Al Dia Andalucia (Spain)
- After the alert: radio ‘eyes’ hunt the source of the gravitational waves - The Conversation (UK)
- Aboriginal Australians Observed Red Giant Stars’ Variability - Sky & Telescope (USA)
- Big Data Shines New Light on the Big Bang - SAP (USA)
- Jodrell Bank bids for Unesco World Heritage status - BBC News (UK)
- ASSAf awards Fanaroff a gold medal - Engineering News (South Africa)
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Have Taken Centre Stage – Here’s Why - Technology Networks (USA)
- China Focus: FAST telescope finds pulsars during trial operation - XinhuaNet (China)
- $23 Million in New Funding for Dunlap Institute Astronomers - Dunlap Institute (Canada)
- Indian Science Minister visits South African SKA site - Twitter
- FAST telescope finds pulsars during trial operation - XinhuaNet (China)
- NSF-funded LIGO pioneers named 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics laureates - National Science Foundation (USA)
- How the Square Kilometre Array will force computing forward - HP Enterprise (USA)
- ALMA Finds Hints of Early Black-Hole Growth - AAS Nova (USA)
- Statement on impact of Hurricane Maria on Arecibo Observatory - National Science Foundation (USA)
- It's exciting that Australia is getting a space agency. But what will it do? - The Guardian (United Kingdom)
- From the outback to outer space: A brief history of Australia's space program - The Canberra Times (Australia)
- Where are we at? The Square Kilometre Array - Particle/SciTech (Australia)
- The Colossal Telescope Offering the Most Detailed Pictures of the Universe - World Economic Forum (Switzerland)
- Without science, we risk making decisions in the dark - World Economic Forum (Switzerland)
- Fast Radio Bursts May Be Firing Off Every Second - Space Fellowship (USA)
- Interference kills the radio star finder - CSIROscope (Australia)
- Clean energy powers high tech astronomy in world-first collaboration with CSIRO - ABC (Australia)
- Expect the unexpected from the big-data boom in radio astronomy - Cosmos (USA)
- FAST radio telescope chief scientist Nan Rendong died at the age of 72 years old - Top News
- After Cassini: 10 future space missions to look forward to - ScienceFocus (UK)
- Listening for the universe to chime in - The Globe and Mail (USA)
- Dr. Space Junk Unearths the Cultural Landscape of the Cosmos - The New Yorker (USA)
- Telescopes Pick up Strange Radio Signals Three Billion Years Old - The Wire (India)
- Curtin University Vice-Chancellor echoes calls for an Australian space agency - Community News (Australia)
- Ghana’s first radio telescope is the start of a continent-wide project to capture the complete African sky - Quartz (Africa)
- The future of astronomy in Australia - Nature (USA)
- The supertelescope that will seek extraterrestrial life - Expresso (Portugal)
- Can Radio Telescopes Find Axions? - AAS Nova (USA)
- Aveiro helps to create the world's largest radio telescope - DN (Portugal)
- NZ puts $380k toward big data project involving world's largest radio telescope - NZHerald (New Zealand)
- Drive to connect Africa's scientists - IOL (South Africa)
- South Africa: Ghana and South Africa Celebrate First Success of African Network of Telescopes - allAfrica (South Africa)
- Ghana inaugurates first SKA-linked African radio telescope outside South Africa - SABC news (South Africa)
- From Hakås to the outer space (Swedish language) - SVT (Sweden)
- Philip Diamond from SKA Project to Keynote SC17 - Inside HPC (USA)
- 70 years of Independence: India poised to join league of global scientific leaders - Tech2 (India)
- SKA: World's biggest radio telescope prepares for crucial new phase - Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK)
- Voices in Italian Ska Organisation. Part Three: Andrea Cremonini - Globo Channel (Italy)
- Ghana, South Africa celebrate first success of African network of telescopes - Engineering News (South Africa)
- 2017 Jansky Lectureship Awarded to South African Astronomer Bernie Fanaroff - NewsWise (USA)
- With an eye on future funding, Square Kilometre Array makes fresh pitch in Europe - Science|Business (Belgium)
- Hope shimmer at the radio - Physick Journal (Germany)
- The Future Of Astronomy: Thousands Of Radio Telescopes That Can See Beyond The Stars - Forbes (USA)
- African scientists are changing the world, but it's going unnoticed - World Economic Forum
- Australia’s biggest battery system delivered to WA astronomy hub - One Step Off The Grid (Australia)
- Breakthrough Initiatives and Jodrell Bank Observatory Launch New Collaboration in Search for Intelligent Life beyond Earth - Breakthrough Initiatives (USA)
- Come 2018, upgraded GMRT will open new windows on the universe - The Indian Express (India)
- Radiotélescope: les sons racontent l’histoire du monde - RTS (Switzerland)
- Ghana telescope heralds first pan-African array - Nature (UK)
- Why data-driven science is more than just a buzzword - The Conversation (UK)
- Nasa and ESA want to look for life on Europe, a moon of Jupiter, with a lander - Futura Sciences (France)
- Work starts on world’s largest telescope project - InsiderMedia (UK)
- Where would we be today without WiFi? - Voxy (New Zealand)
- Using Radio to Detect the Gravitational Waves of Merging Black Holes - Physics Central (USA)
- Big data opening R&D opportunities in Africa - SciDev (South Africa)
- Inside the Square Kilometre Array - ABC (Australia)
- Pioneering research and data management in Africa: a dual first - MRC (South Africa)
- Astronomers probe swirling particles in halo of starburst galaxy - ICRAR (Australia)
- Government gives green light for shale gas fracking in Karoo - News24 (South Africa)
- Australia’s science vision centres on collaboration - Science Meets Business (Australia)
- Telescope Eyeing Universe's First Stars Gets (Another) Big Boost - Space.com (USA)
- SA’s astronomy centres to become one constellation - BusinessDay (South Africa)
- One woman’s role in designing the world’s largest radio telescope - PublicNow (Australia)
- The Square Kilometre Array: going to infinity and beyond - Financial Review (Australia)
- SKA SA, Agri SA partner to benefit Karoo communities - Engineering News (South Africa)
- A beacon in the bush becomes an astronomy powerhouse - Nature Index 2016 Collaborations
- Interview with Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro, coordinator of the SKA-Spain activities (Facebook, in Spanish)
- SKA stakeholders prepare for visit - The New Age (South Africa)
- Projet SKA : le Centre de recherches opérationnel - Newsmada (Magadascar, in French)
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