Australian Radio Telescope Maps Universe at Warp Speed

Published by the Environmental News Service

PERTH, Australia, December 1, 2020 (ENS) – A radio telescope in the outback of Western Australia is creating a new atlas of the universe at astonishing speed, mapping some three million galaxies in just 300 hours. The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope conducts a survey like a Google map of the universe where most of the millions of points on the map are distant galaxies – at least a million of which humans have never seen before.

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