{"id":116671,"date":"2020-12-04T19:24:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T03:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/researchers-created-a-google-map-of-the-universe-with-a-million-newly-discovered-galaxies"},"modified":"2020-12-04T19:24:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T03:24:06","slug":"researchers-created-a-google-map-of-the-universe-with-a-million-newly-discovered-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/researchers-created-a-google-map-of-the-universe-with-a-million-newly-discovered-galaxies","title":{"rendered":"Researchers created a \u2018Google Map\u2019 of the universe, with a million newly discovered galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-created-a-google-map-of-the-universe-with-a-million-newly-discovered-galaxies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csiro.au\/en\/News\/News-releases\/2020\/Australian-telescope-creates-a-new-atlas-of-the-Universe\">have mapped<\/a> about a million previously undiscovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way, in the most detailed survey of the southern sky ever carried out using radio waves.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/research.csiro.au\/racs\/\">Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey<\/a> (or RACS) has placed the CSIRO\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csiro.au\/en\/Research\/Facilities\/ATNF\/ASKAP\">Australian SKA Pathfinder<\/a> radio telescope (ASKAP) firmly on the international astronomy map.<\/p>\n<p>While past surveys have taken years to complete, ASKAP\u2019s RACS survey was conducted in less than two weeks \u2014 smashing previous records for speed. Data gathered have produced images five times more sensitive and twice as detailed as previous ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have mapped about a million previously undiscovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way, in the most detailed survey of the southern sky ever carried out using radio waves. The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (or RACS) has placed the CSIRO\u2019s Australian SKA Pathfinder radio telescope (ASKAP) firmly on the international astronomy map. While past surveys have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}