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Miroslav Filipovic, Professor, Western Sydney University

‘Ghosts of the radio universe’: astronomers have discovered a slew of faint circular objects

Some of the objects captured by ASKAP. Author provided

Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can’t. 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 radio telescopes – including the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and MeerKAT, a telescope in South Africa – is revealing incredibly faint cosmic objects, never before seen.

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