Field Of Vision
James Bullen
at 08:30 PM 10 Oct 2020
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An antenna tile from the Murchison Widefield Array
IMAGE BY David Herne

The Murchison Widefield Array is quite different from other devices that see into the night sky. It's a radio telescope with no moving parts, but hundreds of antennas which stretch over a large distance in outback Western Australia. The array has a number of functions - it aims to look at the Epoch of Reionisation (the time in our universe's history where the first luminous sources came into existence), as well as the Sun and coronal mass ejections. It'll also be checking out pulsars below 300MHz. Neat.