The new telescope discovers a million new galaxies and creates a “new atlas of the universe”: the Universe

A new high-powered radio telescope system in Western Australia has captured a million hitherto unknown galaxies while mapping the universe.

According to an Australian state scientific organization CSIRO

Thanks to radio telescopes, they were able to create a new “atlas of space” in a very short time, Reuters reported. The new telescopes have mapped more than three million galaxies in about 300 hours. Previously, the same job took ten years.

“It has a (new set of binoculars) that is more sensitive than previous instruments that studied the celestial sky, so we can see more bodies than we have seen in the past,” said CSIRO researcher David McConnell.

According to McConnell, the new data will allow scientists to study the formation and evolution of stars, black holes and other cosmic objects in more detail. “We expect to find up to ten million new galaxies in the next investigation,” McConnell said.

The Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope system is located in the desert of Western Australia. Its construction began in 2009 in an area that has been called “the most peaceful place on Earth for astronomers”. Due to the distance from human settlements, there is no mobile signal, wifi network or broadcast station that could interfere with the operation of the radio binoculars.

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