June 14, 2014

ASKAP image with the beams used to create it and the Moon for comparison (Image courtesy Ian Heywood and the ACES team/CSIRO. All rights reserved)

The “Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array” meeting was held this week in the Giardini Naxos, Messina, Italy to talk about the latest updates of the SKA (Square Kilometer Array) project, the next-generation radio telescope that is expected to come into operation in 2020. The participants discussed the latest developments in the field of astrophysics and of course the research needed to complete the SKA project. The first picture taken by ASKAP (Australian SKA Pathfinder) was also showed as it’s one of the radio telescopes already under construction that will be integrated into the SKA.