Tag Archive for 'ASKAP'

Radio (left) and optical (right) images of NGC 4532 / DDO 137. Image credit: ICRAR / D. Lang, Perimeter Institute.

185,000-Light-Year-Long Bridge of Neutral Hydrogen Gas Connects Two Dwarf Galaxies

Sep 24, 2025 by News Staff

As part of the Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Survey (WALLABY), an international team of astronomers has observed the dwarf galaxy pair NGC 4532...

A composite of radio, X-ray, and infrared emission of the field of ASKAP J1832-0911. Image credit: Wang et al., doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09077-w.

Radio Wave- and X-Ray-Emitting Star is Unlike Anything Astronomers Have Seen in Our Galaxy

May 30, 2025 by News Staff

ASKAP J1832-0911 — likely a magnetar or an extremely magnetized white dwarf — emits pulses of radio waves and X-rays for two minutes every...

An artist’s impression of a neutron star. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Astronomers Discover Slowest-Spinning Radio-Emitting Neutron Star

Jun 5, 2024 by News Staff

Neutron stars typically rotate at fast speeds, taking just seconds or even a fraction of a second to fully spin on their axis. However, a neutron star...

At the center of this complex landscape of brilliant, colorful gas clouds is the supernova remnant 30 Doradus B. Image credit: NASA / CXC / Penn State University / Townsley et al. / STScI / HST / JPL / CalTech / SST / SAO / J. Schmidt / N. Wolk / K. Arcand.

At Least Two Supernova Explosions Created Supernova Remnant 30 Doradus B, Astronomers Say

Jan 5, 2024 by News Staff

30 Doradus B, also cataloged as NGC 2060, is found in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At the center of this complex...

This artist’s impression illustrates the path of FRB 20220610A, from a group of distant galaxies where it originated all the way to Earth, in one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms. Image credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO.

Astronomers Discover Farthest Fast Radio Burst Yet

Oct 20, 2023 by News Staff

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration pulses of radio emission originating from extragalactic sources. An international team of astronomers...

Brown dwarfs are common in the Universe but are rarely found to emit radio waves. Image credit: NASA.

ASKAP Telescope Detects Periodic Radio Emission from Ultracool Dwarf

Jul 13, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

The T8-dwarf WISE J062309.94-045624.6 is the coolest and latest-type star observed to produce radio emission, according to an analysis of data from CSIRO’s...

A part of the Galactic plane as seen by the ASKAP radio telescope and the Parkes radio telescope, Murriyang, showing supernova remnants and the space between the stars. Image credit: R. Kothes, NRC / PEGASUS Team.

Radio Astronomers Discover New Supernova Remnants in Milky Way Galaxy

Jan 17, 2023 by News Staff

Using the ASKAP and Parkes radio telescopes in Australia, astronomers have observed a large section of the Galactic plane of the Milky Way. A part of the...

A section of the Large Magellanic Cloud, captured under normal conditions by SARAO’s MeerKAT radio telescope. It is detecting all radio light, and PSR J0523-7125 looks like just another source of radio light. Image credit: Yuanming Wang.

ASKAP Radio Telescope Discovers New Extragalactic Pulsar

May 3, 2022 by News Staff

PSR J0523-7125, a highly circularly polarized, variable, steep-spectrum pulsar located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, is the brightest extragalactic pulsar...

The position of J0624-6948 (small object at the center of the purple ring indicated by *) is indicated with respect to the Milky Way’s Galactic plane, the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud. Image credit: Axel Mellinger, Central Michigan University.

ASKAP Finds Rogue Supernova Remnant near Large Magellanic Cloud

Mar 30, 2022 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) have spotted a mysterious circular ring between the Milky Way’s plane and...

This image shows the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is a satellite of our Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: Pingel et al., arXiv: 2111.05339.

Astronomers Snap New Radio Image of Small Magellanic Cloud

Dec 24, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of radio astronomers has assembled the most sensitive and detailed view of the neutral hydrogen emission associated with a nearby dwarf galaxy called...

An artist’s impression of the ASKAP J173608.2-321635 source. Image credit: Sebastian Zentilomo.

Astronomers Find Strange Source of Radio Waves near Milky Way’s Center

Oct 12, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using CSIRO’s ASKAP and South African Radio Astronomy Observatory’s MeerKAT radio telescopes have discovered and characterized ASKAP J173608.2-321635,...

This image, captured by CSIRO’s ASKAP radio telescope, shows the Large Magellanic Cloud. Image credit: Pennock et al., doi: 10.1093/mnras/stab1858.

Astronomers Create New Radio Map of Large Magellanic Cloud

Aug 19, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope have observed the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite...

The two galaxies Norris et al. think are responsible for the streams of electrons (shown as curved arrows) that form the ‘dancing ghosts;’ but the authors don’t understand what is causing the filament labelled as 3. Image credit: Jayanne English & Ray Norris / EMU Project / Dark Energy Survey.

ASKAP Radio Telescope Spots ‘Dancing Ghost’ Galaxies

Aug 10, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope, a radio telescope situated about 800 km north of Perth, in...

The SCORPIO field. Image credit: Umana et al.

ASKAP Detects Compact Radio Sources in Milky Way’s Galactic Plane

May 31, 2021 by News Staff

A team of radio astronomers using CSIRO’s Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) has mapped the entire area of the Stellar Continuum Originating from Radio...

An artist’s impression of a thin gas cloud formed by tidal disruption from a passing star. Wang et al. think this is one of the possible ways the cold clump of gas detected in the study could have been formed. Image credit: Mark Myers / OzGrav.

Radio Astronomers Detect ‘Invisible’ Filament of Cold Gas

Feb 5, 2021 by News Staff

Using CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and background radio galaxies, astronomers have spotted a long cloud of cold hydrogen...

Simulation showing the distribution of hot gas (left), compared with the eROSITA X-ray image (right) of the Abell 3391-Abell 3395 system. Image credit: Reiprich et al., doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039590.

Astronomers Discover Longest Filament of Intergalactic Gas Yet

Dec 17, 2020 by News Staff

Using the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) space observatory and CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder...

An artist’s impression of a powerful flare from Proxima Centauri ejecting material onto a nearby planet. Image credit: Mark Myers / OzGrav.

Stellar Flare-Associated Radio Burst Detected from Proxima Centauri

Dec 10, 2020 by News Staff

Astronomers have detected a bright, long-duration optical flare accompanied by intense radio bursts from Proxima Centauri, the Sun’s nearest stellar...

ASKAP conducted its first survey of the entire southern sky in record speed and detail, creating a new atlas of the Universe. Image credit: CSIRO.

ASKAP Radio Telescope Maps Nearly Three Million Galaxies

Dec 2, 2020 by News Staff

Astronomers using CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) have mapped approximately 3,000,000 galaxies in the observable Universe. ASKAP...

ASKAP radio continuum image of ORC 1 (contours) overlaid onto a DES 3-color composite image. Two galaxies of interest: ‘C’ lies near the center of ORC 1 and ‘S’ coincides with the southern radio peak. Image credit: Norris et al, arXiv: 2006.14805.

New Class of Radio-Astronomical Objects Discovered: Odd Radio Circles

Jul 13, 2020 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers has discovered an unexpected new class of radio-astronomical objects, consisting of a circular disk, which in some...

ASKAP Telescope Traces Four Fast Radio Bursts to Massive Galaxies

Jun 1, 2020 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope at CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory have tracked four mysterious blasts...