New radio telescope to provide advance warnings of potentially damaging solar flares
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The newly inaugurated Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope will monitor the Sun's activity to give us early warning on upcoming solar flares (Image: NASA)
The newly inaugurated Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope will act as an early warning system for solar flares
The newly inaugurated Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO)
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After a long eight-year wait, the building of Australia's Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope has finally reached completion. The radio telescope's first major task will be to investigate the Sun to provide earlier warnings of solar storms that, if left unchecked, could fry satellites and power grids across the globe. The telescope will also be sued to scout the sky for the earliest, most distant galaxies ever detected in an attempt to resolve unanswered questions on the origins of the Universe.
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