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    Place your bets...no more bets!Thursday, 7 July 2011The Australasian bid for the Square Kilometre Array mega radiotelescope has been pitched and bets are (almost) off.
 Gravity and the Square Kilometre ArrayWednesday, 6 July 2011Excitement is building in Canada towards the presentation of the Australian and South African bids to host the Square Kilometre Array, which will offer one of the most precise tests of general relativity to date.
 Towards the exaflopTuesday, 5 July 2011On day two of the meeting on astronomy in the era of big data, Steven Tingay checks out the progress towards the exaflop, computing 10 million times faster than today's.
 Astronomy gurus head to BanffMonday, 4 July 2011Astronomy gurus have converged on Banff, Alberta, Canada to discuss a new era of astronomy and the construction of a radio telescope 10,000 times faster than current technology.
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Big astronomy The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the world's biggest radio telescope. Steven Tingay, deputy director of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research gives us the low down on astronomy in the era of big data from Banff, Alberta, Canada. |