Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) telescope
- the Paris Observatory who was involved in the project.
- The team used the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) telescope to pick up traces — or “jets” — of ancient radiation produced when galaxies merge. These jets, previously undetected, can extend over millions of light years. “With radio observations we can detect radiation from the tenuous medium that exists between galaxies,”
- The map created by the LOFAR observations, part of which was published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, contains data equivalent to the capacity of ten million DVDs yet charts just two percent of the sky.
- Radio astronomy allows scientists to detect radiation produced when massive celestial objects interact.
