The “Eye of the Sky” telescope discovers the largest atomic gas structure in the universe

The Chinese newspaper “People” said that Chinese scientists recently used the “Fast” radio telescope, or as it is called “China’s Eye of the Sky”, to discover the structure of the atomic gas on a scale of about two million light years. , which is the largest atomic gas structure that has been discovered in the universe at the time, according to the newspaper.

This telescope has become the only one of its kind capable of detecting such a fine gas.

This massive atomic structure of gas is found in the famous “Stephen’s Five” compact group of galaxies, which is 20 times larger than the Milky Way. These scientific results were published in the international academic journal “Nature” on October 19.

The observation of gases in the universe is a very important study in the field of astrophysics, since the origin of all celestial bodies in the universe is inseparable from atomic gas. The interaction of galaxies in the universe and the source of gas between them has always been an important issue in astronomy, so the Chinese telescope is an effective weapon for studying this problem.

With an aperture of 500 meters in diameter, Eye of the Sky is the largest and most sensitive single aperture radio telescope in the world and its extremely high sensitivity can detect the faint radiation emitted by extremely thin atomic gases scattered far from the galactic center.