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Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
The Square Kilometre Array or SKA isn’t like a typical telescope. It doesn’t use lenses or mirrors — and it will even work in the middle of a sunny day. This is because the SKA is a radio telescope. It will detect radio waves from space that we can’t see with our eyes. Things like stars, galaxies and black holes give off radio waves and the SKA will be able to detect them.
The SKA will be located across Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
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New Zealand Scientists
Classroom activities about NZ scientists and their inventions
- Bill Gallagher — maker of New Zealand's first electric fence
- Peter Witehira — developer of a revolutionary car battery
- Morton Coutts — whose brewing process revolutionised beer making
- David Illingworth and Robert Norris — and the Dairy Research Institute, worldwide developers of spreadable butter
- Bill Robinson — who developed seismic isolators
- John Hart — inventor of the thermette
- Jacqueline Rowarth — has pioneered outstanding research in the area of fertiliser application
- Lucy Moore — who discovered agar from a specific type of seaweed
- Norm Rumsey — improved maritime safety with sector navigation lights
- Allan Croad — developer of the Mountain Buggy