ASKAP to discover 700,000 supergalaxies
ASKAP to discover 700,000 supergalaxies Updated: 16:22, Friday October 5, 2012 The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder is expected to discover in its early stages - using just 36 dishes - more than 700,000 new supergalaxies, CSIRO says.
While searching for data looking for star-forming regions around a galaxy located more than 200 million light years away, researchers have accidentally discovered that it is, in fact, the largest known spiral galaxy in the entire universe.