Whoa. That's the Milky Way, Bouncing off the Moon in Radio Waves

By Evan Gough October 29, 2018
Whoa. That's the Milky Way, Bouncing off the Moon in Radio Waves

"We have measured the value of the mean brightness of our Galaxy at the spot where the Moon occults it, to show that the technique works." - Dr. McKinley, ICRAR.

Sources:

  • Research Paper: "Measuring the global 21-cm signal with the MWA-I: improved measurements of the Galactic synchrotron background using lunar occultation"

  • ICRAR Press Release: "Moon helps reveal secrets of the Universe"

  • Wikipedia Entry: Chronology of the universe

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