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World's fastest radio telescope starts up in Australian outback. ASKAP: Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder Telescope Sky Surveys Wallaby & Dingo. The two new sky surveys will use data from an array of 36 antennas each 12 meters (40 feet) acrossProject is also the first building block in the world's largest telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) which will be based in both Australia and South Africa By Mark Prigg Published: 14:53 GMT, 31 December 2012 | Updated: 02:08 GMT, 1 January 2013 Two Australian sky surveys named Wallaby and Dingo are expected to discover 700,000 galaxies over the course of the new year.

ASKAP: Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder Telescope Sky Surveys Wallaby & Dingo

SKA: The Square Kilometre Array Telescope.