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29 March 2024

Telescope that connects with aliens...if any

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If Australia has its way then all evolution-related queries debated by mankind since ages will be answered. Human beings could even take a sneak peep at aliens on other planets, if any!

Australia's leading astronomer Fred Watson says "it may depend on an area of Western Australia being chosen as the site for the square kilometre array (SKA), the world's most powerful radio telescope," reported AAP.

The Murchison region in the WA outback is vying with a site in southern Africa for the SKA with a group of international scientists expected to make a final decision in 2012.

Professor Watson was quoted by AAP as saying: "The SKA will be by far the most sensitive radio telescope ever built. "It will have the potential to reveal all kinds of things ranging from the possibility of picking up signals from aliens, if they exist."

It will also look at the early universe, and work out how galaxies were formed; as well as probe the "mysterious stuff" called dark matter, which permeates four-fifths of the universe, he added.

Some clues on the location may be revealed after a meeting in Canada as early as this week.