Construction on the world’s biggest radio telescope, which will span two continents, peer deep into space and time and is expected to capture the “entire observable universe”, will officially begin on Monday.
The Square Kilometre Array will be split between remote observatories in Western Australia’s Mid West and South Africa’s Karoo region, combining to produce a telescope with a collecting area of about one square kilometre.
Scientists hope to use the immensely powerful telescope to study the universe’s “cosmic dawn”, a period between about 100 million and 1 billion years after the big bang when the first stars burst to life and galaxies formed.
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