Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) announced on January 17 that researchers from Macquarie University in Australia and the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) in Italy, using CSIRO’s radio telescope, announce that they have produced the most detailed radio telescope. Picture ever of a supernova remnant in the Milky Way.
As part of the PEGASUS and EMU observational projects using two radio telescopes owned and operated by CSIRO, ASKAP and Murriyang, researchers have surveyed a large region of the Milky Way’s plane. This image was first published as a collage of data obtained from these surveys.
It is estimated that the Milky Way contains many more supernova remnants than is currently observed, but no telescope has the sensitivity to detect them.
Andrew Hopkins, Macquarie University Professor, lead scientist for the EMU project, said: “This new image clearly shows a region of the Milky Way that can only be seen with radio telescopes. While only seven supernova remnants have been found, these images reveal even more remnants. 20 possible supernovae.
“Ultimately, we will have an unprecedented image that is 100 times larger than this image and captures almost the entire Milky Way,” he said.
Part of the galactic plane was captured by the ASKAP radio telescope. Many remnants of the supernova can be seen
© R. Kothes (NRC), the European Monetary Union Team and POSSUM
Part of the galactic plane seen with the ASKAP radio telescope and the Moryang Parkes radio telescope. Showing the distance between the supernova remnant and the star
© R. Kothes (NRC) and the PEGASUS Team
Part of the galactic plane seen with the Moryang Radio Parkes Telescope. Interstellar dust is visible
© E. Carretti (INAF) and the PEGASUS Team
Parkes Radio Telescope Moryang
© CSIRO
ASKAP radio telescope dish
© CSIRO
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