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Australian telescope ‘googles’ 3 million galaxies – SpaceWatch.Global
Luxembourg, 4 December 2020. – Googling the Universe: The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfind
Luxembourg, 4 December 2020. Googling the Universe: The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), a large telescope operated by Australias national science agency, CSIRO, mapped approximately three million galaxies in just 300 hours.
The ASKAP survey is like a Google map of the Universe where most of the millions of star-like points on the map are distant galaxies about a million of which weve never seen before, CSIRO said in a press release.
The telescopes key feature is its wide field…
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