AusSRC's Dr. Kat Ross speaks to triple j on first SKAO-Low image
'The SKA is pushing the boundaries of every single aspect of astronomy we can think of'.
On March 17, the first image from the international SKA Observatory’s telescope in Australia, SKA-Low, was released.
AusSRC Support Scientist Dr. Kat Ross spoke to triple j’s Dave Marchese on SKA-Low’s first image, and what the future holds for radio astronomy following this significant milestone.
‘What we’re looking at is the first image from less than one percent of this telescope, and already we can see almost a hundred galaxies, right back to the early universe.’
SKA-Low’s ‘first glimpse of the universe’ was produced using data from the first antennas installed at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory on Wajarri Yamaji Country. It is one of two telescopes under construction by the SKA Observatory (SKAO).
It is expected that 600,000 galaxies will be shown in the same area once SKA-Low is fully online.
You can listen to the full interview on triple j’s Hack.
You can learn more about the first SKA-Low image on the SKAO website.
