Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) has announced that a prototype dish for the SKA-Mid radio telescope array has commenced initial astronomical observations, known as “first light observations”. The SKA-Mid will be one of two instruments operated by the international Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) and will be located in the Karoo region of South Africa’s Northern Cape province. (The other instrument, SKA-Low, will be sited in Australia.) Germany will join the ...
