Square Kilometre Array--- A New Most Powerful Telescope To Be Developed

Scientists are busy in efforts for several years to know the secrets of the universe. How it came into being, how vast is it, is there any life on other planets other than the earth and many other questions about universe. Now, the efforts of the scientists are becoming more swift with the advancement in the field of science and technology. Scientists are trying to develop such equipments that would enable them to peep into the unlimited width of the universe.
In this regard the world biggest computer manufacturing institution IBM has launched a project to develop the most powerful telescope of the world that would make human being reach the 13 million years in the past and know from the moment when the universe came into being (the moment of big Bang).
This telescope will consists of several technologies. A fastest computer is also being developed for the purpose. How much fast this computer will be, it can be judged from the fact that this computer would handle double amount of as much data as the whole Internet of the world is composed of. This super computer will be linked to the chain of dish antennas covering an area of 1900 square kilometers. The data will be transfered from the antennas to the computer that will process the data and will try to know the events happening 13 billions years ago. IBM has named the project, " Square Kilometre Array (SKA). This radio telescope will have a computer that will be million times faster than the present fastest computer and would be able to process 100 times more data than the large hadron collider. The large hadron collider is the largest and most costly machine ofscientific history through which scientists are trying to know about the beginning of the universe. After completion this telescope will search the constitution of milky ways, facts of dark meter and will peep into 13 years billion years past era when the universe was created. According to the scientists the SKA will be 50 times more sensitive than the present sensitive radio equipments. It is expected that after being functional the SKA will collect several exa bites data daily,one exa bite is equal to 1073741824 GB. According to experts after processing of all the data 300-500 penta bites will be needed to be saved. One penta bite is equivalent to 1048578 GB. The work on the project will actually be started in 2018. Now a days prototypes of the project are being tested in the Karo desert of South Africa. This is composed of 7 dish antennas of 7 diameter each. Scientists are hopeful that after the latest telescope gets functional many secrets of the universe will be revealed.