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This allowed scientists to create a virtual map of the night sky that lets you interact with distant parts of the universe.
The initial results of this survey were published in the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia on November 30.
According to Indian Express, ASKAP is a telescope designed over a decade ago and located about 800 km north of Perth. It became fully operational in February 2019 and is currently conducting pilot surveys of the sky before it can begin large-scale projects from 2021 onward.
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The telescope uses novel technology developed by CSIRO, which is a kind of a “radio camera” to achieve high survey speeds and consists of 36 dish antennas, which are each 12m in diameter.
The telescope has an enormous field of view, so it only needed to combine 903 images to create a sky map.