What is the Square Kilometer Array project, significance of India joining it
India is set to get full member status to the Square Kilometer Array. What is this project, and how will joining it help India's scientific community?
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India is set to get full member status to the Square Kilometer Array. What is this project, and how will joining it help India's scientific community?
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Through the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) as the official representative of the 20-plus scientific institutions, India, too, is involved in this project. However, as a member country, India is yet to complete the final approval and ratification process for joining the construction phase. Once ready, this observatory could help the scientific community improve its knowledge and seek answers to some of the fundamental and yet poorly-explored aspects of the universe, such as its early history, the evolution of galaxies over cosmic time, fundamental physics in extreme environments and more. S...