• Question: @anna, hi anna, we took interest to your profile and wanted to know some extra details about your work with building the world's largest radio telescope.

    Asked by cookie123 to Anna on 12 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Anna Scaife

      Anna Scaife answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      Hey Cookie123 🙂

      The telescope I’m building is called the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and it will be 100 times more sensitive than anything we have at the moment. The work I do is mainly about how to turn the radio signals into the best pictures we can make so that we get the most information out of the telescope.

      I also work on deciding the best way to use the telescope for measuring magnetic fields in colliding clusters of galaxies – the most energetic event in the Universe!

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