written by curtin university, on april 7th, 2022
who: an international team of astronomers led by dr. marcin glowacki, who previously worked at the inter-university institute for data intensive astronomy and the university of the western cape in south africa,
what: space lazer just detected
when: study submitted april 6th, 2022
where: detected with the meerkat telescope located in south africa
how: the telescope was able to detect the beams of light emitted from the crash of two galaxies and record it
Interesting fact: this is the first space laser to be recorded by the meerkat telescope!
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