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Giant Radio 'Eyeball' Readied for Mega-Telescope |
 | | The SKA is designed to be 100 times bigger than today's largest radio telescopes, all the better to capture the weak whispers from the early Universe. |
 | | Australia will unveil these plans at a major international meeting on the SKA that starts on 9 July at the University of California Berkeley. |
 | | The countries currently participating in the international SKA consortium are Australia, Canada, China, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, The Netherlands, Sweden, the U.K. and the United States. |
| www.space.com /businesstechnology/technology/radio_eyeball_010706.html (654 words) |
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