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An artist’s impression of the Square Kilometre Array telescope in South Africa. (SKAO)

Information collected by the world’s largest radio telescope will be stored and processed by global data centres

Simon Blouin, University of Victoria; Falk Herwig, University of Victoria; JJ Kavelaars, National Research Council Canada; University of Victoria, and Sébastien Fabbro, University of Victoria

The world’s largest space telescope, comprising thousands of antennae in the southern hemisphere, will generate massive amounts of data — some of which will be processed in Canada.
It’s a bird… It’s a plane… No, it’s an object from another solar system! Astronomers have been scrambling to identify a mysterious object passing through our solar system at a speed of about 160,000 km/h. This NASA file image shows a simulation of asteroids passing the earth. (Handout)

How scientists discovered our first interstellar mystery visitor

JJ Kavelaars, University of Victoria

Astronomers have detected what is believed to be the first interstellar object ever seen passing through our solar system.

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