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Jacob Shteyman

Telescope megaproject ushers 'scientific age of wonder'

More than 130,000 two-metre-tall antennas will be installed at the Square Kilometre Array site. (HANDOUT/OGILVY)

Astronomers are one step closer to unveiling the secrets of the cosmos as one of the humanity's biggest ever science endeavours gets underway in Western Australia.

The first of more than 130,000 two-metre-tall, Christmas tree-shaped antennas were installed at the world's largest radio astronomy observatory, the $3 billion Square Kilometre Array, on Thursday.

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