Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled.
This spectacular new image captures the Southern Hemisphere view of our Milky Way galaxy, revealing it across a wide range of radio wavelengths, or ‘colours’ of radio light.
It provides astronomers with new ways to explore the birth, evolution, and death of stars in our Galaxy.
Silvia Mantovanini, a PhD student at the Curtin University node of ICRAR, dedicated 18 months and approximately 1M CPU hours to construct the image by using the supercomputers at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre to process and compile the data from two extensive surveys.
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Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled.
This spectacular new image captures the Southern Hemisphere view of our Milky Way galaxy, revealing it across a wide range of radio wavelengths, or ‘colours’ of radio light.
It provides astronomers with new ways to explore the birth, evolution, and death of stars in our Galaxy.
Silvia Mantovanini, a PhD student at the Curtin University node of ICRAR, dedicated 18 months and approximately 1M CPU hours to construct the image by using the supercomputers at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre to process and compile the data from two extensive surveys.
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https://www.icrar.org/gleam-x-galactic-plane/?fbclid=IwY2xjawN6rnZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFYdUxaRXV0dmk2WDN1OXQyc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHg9ZCJs536ebLELW27_-s2RGDOzvGopymrT-DDbqdZQ94-77BUyLHo00kVV4_aem_1Pwkd4mQOk_4r9giHIfjIA
Paper
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/publications-of-the-astronomical-society-of-australia/article/galactic-and-extragalactic-allsky-murchison-widefield-array-survey-extended-gleamx-iii-galactic-plane/C95F9B7DC74EC3F9D3DDCD1C43A905BD