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Published online 28 September 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060925-10
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Giant telescope offered choice of homes
Australia and South Africa vie for deep-seeing telescope.
Two remote tracts of countryside on two different continents were today put forward as contenders to host an enormous radio telescope. When completed, the Square Kilometre Array will consist of thousands of small dishes and antennas, arranged in clusters over an area some 3,000 kilometres across.
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