Science
Australian telescope maps 3 million galaxies in just 300 hours – Aljazeera.com
‘Game-changer’ telescope takes panoramic images of deep space at record speed and opens the way to new discoveries.
A powerful new telescope in outback Australia has mapped vast areas of the universe in record-breaking time, revealing a million new galaxies and opening the way to new discoveries, the countrys national science agency said on Tuesday.
The radio telescope, dubbed the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), was able to map about three million galaxies in just 300 hours. Comparable surveys of the sky have taken as long as 10 years.
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