Australian scientists recently claimed that they have been able to map a million galaxies in record time with the help of an advanced telescope.
The CSIRO, the national science agency, said that the telescope mapped 3 million galaxies in total taking only 300 hours, as compared to earlier surveys taking years. The pictures revealed also have twice the level of detail creating a "new atlas of the universe".
The telescope named the ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder) is a collection of 36 dish antennas that work together to take panoramas of the sky. The system is located in the southern hemisphere in remote outback Western Australia. It is spread across a 6 km area at the CSIRO's Murchison observatory about 700 km of Perth.
ASKAP covered 83% of the sky in its first-ever survey this year and the map was stitched together using just 903 highly detailed images.
These results were published on Tuesday in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia.
