WorldWide Telescope Project - Square Kilometre Array

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a radio telescope in development which will have a total collecting area of approximately one square kilometre. It will operate over a wide range of frequencies and its size will make it 50 times more sensitive than any other radio instrument. It will require very high performance central computing engines and long-haul links with a capacity greater than the current global Internet traffic.

It will be able to survey the sky more than ten thousand times faster than ever before. With receiving stations extending out to distance of at least 3,000 km from a concentrated central core, it will continue radio astronomy's tradition of providing the highest resolution images in all astronomy.

Link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array

Square Kilometre Array
Link - http://www.skatelescope.org/


Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Animation

World’s largest telescope to detect threats from outer space

If there are space invaders out there, it won’t be long before they can no longer stage a sneak attack, thanks to a project to build the most sensitive radio telescope ever -- one that’s the size of a continent.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/08/worlds-largest-telescope-to-detect-threats-from-outer-space/#ixzz1oyN7ENkv