The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia announced on January 17 that researchers from Macquarie University in Australia and the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) in Italy, using the CSIRO radio telescope, announced that it had produced the largest radio detailed. ever image of a supernova remnant in the Milky Way galaxy.
As part of the PEGASUS and EMU observing projects using two radio telescopes owned and operated by CSIRO, ASKAP and Murriyang, the researchers surveyed a large region of the observed Milky Way galactic plane. This image was published for the first time as a composite image of the data obtained from these surveys.
It is estimated that the Milky Way contains many more supernova remnants than are currently seen, but no telescope has been made sensitive enough to detect them.
“The new image clearly shows an area of the Milky Way that can only be seen with radio telescopes,” said Macquarie University professor Andrew Hopkins, lead scientist on the EMU project. “Although only seven supernova remnants have been discovered, this image reveals more than 20 possible supernova remnants.”
“Eventually, we will have an unprecedented image that is 100 times larger than this one and captures almost the entire Milky Way,” he said.
Part of the galactic plane captured by the ASKAP radio telescope. Many supernova remnants are visible
© R. Kothes (NRC) and the EMU and POSSUM teams
Part of the galactic plane seen with the ASKAP radio telescope and the Parkes Murriyang radio telescope. Shows the space between the supernova remnant and the star
© R. Kothes (NRC) and the PEGASUS team
Part of the galactic plane seen with the Murriyang Parkes Radio Telescope.showing interstellar dust
© E. Carretti (INAF) and the PEGASUS team
Parkes Murriyang Radio Telescope
© CSIRO
ASKAP radio telescope dish
© CSIRO
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