Illustration of the distant galaxy 8 billion light-years away (red), magnified by an unrelated foreground disk galaxy, resulting in a red ring. Splitting up the radio light into different colours, as a prism does, reveals the hydroxyl gigamaser (top-right rainbow-coloured line).
Inter-University Institute for Data-Intensive Astronomy (IDIA)
Jordan Collier, Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy
Complementary science will be at the heart of the Square Kilometre Array.
MeerKAT, the precursor to the massive Square Kilometre Array, allows astronomers to gather huge amounts of data about galaxies.
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