{"id":207899,"date":"2025-03-06T01:07:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T07:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/radio-telescopes-are-revealing-a-trove-of-faint-circular-objects-in-the-sky"},"modified":"2025-03-06T01:07:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T07:07:24","slug":"radio-telescopes-are-revealing-a-trove-of-faint-circular-objects-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/radio-telescopes-are-revealing-a-trove-of-faint-circular-objects-in-the-sky","title":{"rendered":"Radio Telescopes Are Revealing a Trove of Faint Circular Objects in The Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/radio-telescopes-are-revealing-a-trove-of-faint-circular-objects-in-the-sky.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New radio telescopes like ASKAP and MeerKAT are unveiling a \u2018low surface brightness Universe\u2019, enhancing our understanding of its hidden features.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can\u2019t. As we study the sky with telescopes that record radio signals rather than light, we end up seeing a lot of circles.<\/p>\n<p>The newest generation of radio telescopes \u2013 including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csiro.au\/en\/about\/facilities-collections\/atnf\/askap-radio-telescope\">Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder<\/a> (ASKAP) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarao.ac.za\/science\/meerkat\/about-meerkat\/\">MeerKAT<\/a>, a telescope in South Africa \u2013 is revealing incredibly faint cosmic objects, never before seen.<\/p>\n<p>In astronomy, surface brightness is a measure that tells us how easily visible an object is. The extraordinary sensitivity of MeerKAT and ASKAP is now revealing a new \u201clow surface brightness universe\u201d to radio astronomers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New radio telescopes like ASKAP and MeerKAT are unveiling a \u2018low surface brightness Universe\u2019, enhancing our understanding of its hidden features. Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can\u2019t. As we study the sky with telescopes that record radio signals rather than light, we end up seeing a lot of circles. The newest generation of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207899","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}