The deep and vast starry sky is full of too many scientific mysteries, and the pace of human exploration has never stopped. By analyzing the sky survey observation data of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) low-frequency pilot telescope, Chinese and foreign astronomers have found a new object with a super magnetic field in the Milky Way for the first time, about 4200 light-years away from the solar system. On the 27th, the international authoritative journal "Nature" published the results of this study online.
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the world's largest integrated aperture radio telescope jointly built by more than a dozen countries around the world, named after the total area of "1 square kilometer", and officially started construction in July 2021. Before the SKA was built, several pilot telescopes were already in operation. Among them, the low-frequency pilot telescope "Murchison Widefield Array " ( MWA ) is located in Australia.
With the discovery of this new object with a super magnetic field, a new generation of radio telescopes represented by the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) and its pilot telescope is ushering in a new era of radio temporary source research with deeper and broader observation capabilities.
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