South Africa is leading the African bid and has already legislated to create 12.5 million hectares of protected area - or radio astronomy reserve. This area is also referred to as the Karoo Central Astronomy Advantage Area, offering low levels of radio frequency interference, very little light pollution, basic infrastructure of roads, electricity and communication.
The human story began in Africa and it can also be the place where we find answers to the story of our universe.
For more information check out http://skaafrica.com/.
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Great news for the African continent lets hope it benefit them finacially. Well done Congrats with your award.
Its a very nice news.I have very much interest in astronomy.These telescopes will help us to get more information regarding our galaxy.I like to watch them in Discovery channel.We came to know about lot of topics which were taught in our school days but that time the concept was not that much clear for us.
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