Published 15:13 IST, December 1st 2020
Australian scientists map atlas of the universe with new telescope in record speed
A powerful new telescope developed by Australian scientists has mapped a million new galaxies in the desert, unlocking the inverses deepest secrets.
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A powerful new telescope developed by Australian scientists has mapped a million new galaxies in desert, unlocking inverses deepest secrets. CSIRO, Australia’s science ncy, said that its new telescope h created “a new atlas of universe” in record time, showing unprecedented detail. According to official press release, scientists mapped three million galaxies in total, with pictures revealing twice level of detail of previous surveys.
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Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (Askap) broke records as it conducted first survey of entire sourn sky. As per press te, scientists used telescope at an observatory in outback Western Australia to observe 83 per cent of sky. CSIRO said that mapping took just 300 hours and result is a new atlas of universe.
CSIRO’s chief executive, Larry Marshall said, “ASKAP is applying very latest in science and techlogy to -old questions about mysteries of Universe and equipping astromers around world with new breakthroughs to solve ir challenges”.
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She ded, “It’s all enabled by invative receivers developed by CSIRO that feature phased array feed techlogy, which see ASKAP generate more raw data at a faster rate than Australia’s entire internet traffic”.
Australian scientists w expect to find tens of millions of new galaxies in future surveys. Science ncy said that result proves that an all-sky survey can be done in weeks rar than years. y furr ded that instrument has a particularly wide field of view, enabling it to take paramic pictures of sky in high detail. quality of telescope’s receiver means team only needed to combine 903 ims to form a full map of sky, CSIRO said.
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‘Example of Australia’s rio-astromy capability’
CSIRO’s custom-build telescope, Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (Askap), is a collection of 36 dish antennas which work toger to take paramas of sky. system is spre across a 6km area at CSIRO’s Murchison observatory about 700m rth of Perth. By combining signals from smaller dishes, telescope creates high-resolution ims at a fraction of cost of one very large dish. CSIRO said that huge volumes of data, generated at a faster rate than Australia’s entire internet traffic, are n sent to a supercomputer processing facility in Perth to create ims.
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federal science and techlogy minister, Karen Andrews, said Askap was an example of Australia’s world-leing rio astromy capability. She said, "ASKAP is a major techlogical development that puts our scientists, engineers and industry in driver’s seat to le deep discovery for next generation”.
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15:14 IST, December 1st 2020