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    Searching African Skies: The Square Kilometre Array and South Africa's Quest to Hear the Songs of the Stars

    By Sarah Wild

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    An ambitious scientific project is unfolding in the desert of South Africa, with a multi-decade timeline that will eventually see expansion into Western Australia—a project that is detailed and celebrated in this book on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA will be the largest and most sensitive radio telescope, expanding the capabilities of scientific probing and addressing significant unanswered questions about the universe, such as on the formation of galaxies and the nature of gravity. Keen technology correspondent Sarah Wild covers the important development with this exploration of its implications on an international scale as well as its South African context, from the first telescope built in the country in the 1960s to Xhosa starlore. Interspersed with |Xam bushmen stories rewritten from original manuscripts, this consideration is an informed and thoughtful insight into an exciting step in astronomy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJacana Media
    Release dateOct 1, 2012
    ISBN9781431404742
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    Searching African Skies: The Square Kilometre Array and South Africa's Quest to Hear the Songs of the Stars
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    Sarah Wild

    Sarah Wild studied physics, electronics and English literature at Rhodes University, South Africa, and for an MSc in bioethics and health law, before becoming a freelance science journalist. She has also written books, won awards, and run national science desks. Her work has appeared in Nature, Science, Scientific American, and Undark, among others, and she has appeared on the BBC's World Service and the Inside Science programme. She lives in a tiny village just outside Canterbury in the UK.

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