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Hardrock69
10-15-2012, 08:40 PM
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New super telescope Down Under delivers unprecedented look at origins of heaven and earth

We're about to get our clearest look yet into the origins of the universe thanks to the world's fastest and most powerful radio telescope ever coming on line Down Under.

The super powerful radio telescope known as the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is comprised of 36 dish antennas, each 40 feet across. The array is the fastest sky scanner yet. So fast, in fact, that what takes traditional arrays two years to complete it does in just five minutes. And it's not just quick, it's also thorough, collecting a Library of Congress-sized chunk of data each day.

The ASKAP is located in Murchison, a remote region deep in the Australian outback that's approximately the size of West Virginia, and home to only about 120 people. The location has the ideal peace and quiet needed for intense listening, with no man-made radio interference.

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Cool Timelapse video of this new array.

Lookit the Milky Way. This is the sort of thing that demonstrates just how small and insignificant our planet is:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FDoDk4D2RAw#!