The largest radio telescope in the southern hemisphere

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The largest radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, MeerKAT telescope, is still under construction, but it is also ready to return valuable scientific information. MeerKAT is a radio telescope under construction in Karoo, a semi-desert natural region of South Africa and it is probably integrated into the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a project of a radio telescope that will be built in Australia and in South Africa, SKA will have a total extension of one square kilometre.

MeerKAT will consist of 64 receptors, each comprising a 13.

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