New CSIRO telescope maps the universe in record time – ClickLancashire

“It’s really a game changer”, said astronomer David McConnell, who led the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Csiro) study of the southern sky at the Murchison Radioastronomy Observatory in Western Australia.
Over just 300 hours, CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) mapped three million galaxies, one million of which we’d never seen before.
See how many new galaxies it discovered in record time.
Astronomers all over the world will receive new data…

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