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Radio Telescopes: The Future

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The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) may yet become the world’s largest radio telescope, consisting of thousands of antennas (both dishes and dipoles) spread over isolated, semi-desert regions of South Africa and Australia.

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  1. University of Memphis, 4124 11th Street North, Arlington, Virginia, 22201, USA

    Dr. Gerrit Verschuur

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Verschuur, G. (2015). Radio Telescopes: The Future. In: The Invisible Universe. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13422-2_15

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