Astronomers of the University of Kila (United Kingdom) for the first time caught signals from previously unknown stars and distant galaxies when observed for a large magtellane cloud (BMO). This is reported in the article published in the journal MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMOMICAL SOCIETY.
Scientists used ASKAP radio interferometer (Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder), consisting of 36 parabolic antennas in order to obtain images of BMO in radio waves and study the structure of a neighboring with the Milky manner of incorrect galaxy. It is located at a distance of 158 200 light years from the Earth and contains tens of millions of stars.
Astronomers studied the stars, which are contained in the BMO, including the Tarantula nebula, the most active area of star formation in the local group of galaxies. In addition, researchers caught radio emission from distant galaxies in the background, as well as from the stars in the foreground, which are in the Milky Way.
According to the leading author of the study, Clara Pennock (Clara Pennock), on a new detailed image, thousands of space radio sources are visible, which were not previously visible. Most of them are actually galaxies in millions and billion of light years from the Big Magellan clouds. Usually, these galaxies are detected by the activity of supermassive black holes in their center, but now they can be detected by starring areas.