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Luxembourg, 4 December 2020. – Googling the Universe: The Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), a large telescope operated by the Australian national science agency, CSIRO, has mapped around three million galaxies in just 300 hours.
The ASKAP survey is “like a Google map of the Universe where most of the millions of star-like points on the map are distant galaxies – about a million of which we have never seen before,” CSIRO said in a press release. .
The key feature of the telescope is its wide field of view, generated by CSIRO-designed receivers, which allow ASKAP to take panoramic photos of the sky in amazing detail. Using phased array power technology, these receivers generate more raw data at a faster rate than the entire Australian internet traffic, the agency said.
“The new data will allow astronomers to undertake statistical analyzes of large populations of galaxies, in the same way that social researchers use information from a national census.”
“We expect to find tens of millions of new galaxies in future investigations,” said CSIRO astronomer David McConnell.
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