Combing the Cosmos at High Speed: The Allen Telescope Array
October 12, 2006 | Source: Space.com
The Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a specialized radio telescope now under construction by the SETI Institute and the University of California Berkeley, will be about a hundred times faster than any previous radio search, and will simultaneously pick up all cosmic static between 0.5 and 11.2 gigahertza spectral range equivalent to two thousand TV channels.