Square Kilometre Array (SKA)

Resources for NZ teachers:

http://www.ska.edu.au/educators/

http://www.ska.gov.au/DiscoverSKA/EventHolderResources/
Pages/default.aspx

http://www.ska.gov.au/education/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.astronomywa.net.au/

 

Science

Upper Primary/Intermediate

Secondary School Resources

 

Social Science

Secondary School Resources

 

 

The Square Kilometre Array or SKA isn’t like a typical telescope. It doesn’t use lenses or mirrors — and it will even work in the middle of a sunny day. This is because the SKA is a radio telescope. It will detect radio waves from space that we can’t see with our eyes. Things like stars, galaxies and black holes give off radio waves and the SKA will be able to detect them.

Australia and New Zealand have been shortlisted by the international science community as one of two potential locations for the SKA.

Find out more:

http://www.ska.ac.nz/

http://www.ska.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.skatelescope.org/

http://www.ska.edu.au/

 

Dr Melanie Johnston-Hollitt, from Victoria University of Wellington, explains how the Square Kilometre Array will help explore the far reaches of the universe.

Check out this article that looks at galaxy clusters and how instruments such as the SKA help.