Africa: Mozambique to Co-Host World's Largest Telescope

London — The British based organisation the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) has decided to build the world's largest ever telescope in southern Africa and Australasia, with Mozambique hosting part of the telescope at the Science and Technology Park in Maluana, Maputo province.

The telescope is to be constructed using an array of three thousand receivers spread over thousands of kilometres, picking up electromagnetic radiation through 15 metre wide dishes.

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