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

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

When the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory goes online later this decade, it will create one of science’s biggest data challenges. The SKA Observatory is a global radio telescope project built in the Southern Hemisphere. There, views of our Milky Way are clearest and the SKA’s remote sites limit human-made radio interference.