There are countless celestial bodies ranging from stars, satellites, comets, and others. However, astronomers have mapped about a million previously undiscovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way, in the most detailed survey of the Southern sky ever conducted using radio waves.
The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS) has placed CSIRO’s SKA Pathfinder Australia (ASKAP) radio telescope on the international astronomical map.
While previous surveys took years to complete, the ASKAP RACS survey was conducted in less than two weeks. This short time certainly broke the previous speed record. The data collected has resulted in an image five times more sensitive and twice as detailed as the previous one.
What is radio astronomy?
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