Astronomy / Space Telescope Maps Cosmic Rays in Magellanic Clouds

[Manticore]

A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to observe radiation from cosmic rays in two neighbouring galaxies, showing areas of star formation and echoes of past supernovae.

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope was able to map the Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud galaxies in unprecedented detail as they orbit around the Milky Way.

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-telescope-cosmic-rays-magellanic-clouds.html

 

[Para Handy]

Interesting results from such a low-frequency interferometer array. People automatically assume radio astronomy depends upon big dishes but many important discoveries came from low frequency work (e.g. Jocelyn Bell's "scruff" i.e. Pulsars was a 4m / 75MHz telescope).