<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The first image from the unfinished SKA-Low telescope in Western Australia has revealed almost 100 rare galaxies in what is a promising indication of the future for the world's largest radio observatory.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The image was produced with just 1024 of the planned 131,072 antennas, or less than 1 per cent, at the station on Wajarri Yamaji Country, and shows an area of sky about the size of 100 moons.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In the image, 85 of the brightest known galaxies, which appear as pinpricks of light, are visible, millions of light years away. At the centre of each are supermassive black holes - black holes hundreds of thousands to millions of times larger in mass to our Sun.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/court-puts-a-temporary-hold-on-releasing-records-related-to-the-deaths-of-gene-hackman-and-his-wife/86371b7a-7259-49ce-af85-df26e4e20c1c" target="_blank"><strong><span>'Possibly shocking': Court twist in death of Gene Hackman and his wife</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The quality of this image was even beyond what we hoped for using such an early version of the telescope," SKA-Low Lead Commissioning Scientist Dr George Heald said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The bright galaxies we can see in this image are just the tip of iceberg."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The SKA Telescope works by combining the signals from many antennae spread over a large area into a single 'dish'.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/new-telescope-images-wa-perth-skalow-australia-space-galaxy-stars/25c4e8cf-fbf8-46c6-980d-bafa0bb6cca4" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"With the full telescope we will have the sensitivity to reveal the faintest and most distant galaxies, back to the early Universe when the first stars and galaxies started to form," Heald said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/search-for-us-student-in-dominican-republic-intensifies-with-witness-account/24304920-4390-4bc3-afcc-131d314c3e7a" target="_blank"><strong><span>Search for US student in Dominican Republic intensifies with witness account</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>When the telescope is fully functioning, SKA says that studying the same area of sky will reveal more an 600,000 galaxies in a single frame.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This is technically difficult work and the first step to unlocking the awesome science that will be possible," said Heald.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>SKA (Square Kilometre Array) Observatory is an international and intergovernmental radio telescope project, the WA telescope on of two SKA telescopes being built in Australia and South Africa.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/heavy-rain-potential-floods-tropical-north-queensland-continues/10ad0dd6-66dc-40cb-8853-e9e6b766bfd9" target="_blank"><strong><span>Queensland warned of floods with triple-digit falls forecast</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The telescope today is a culmination of work from astronomers, computer scientists, and engineers from around the world over a decade, SKA-Low Telescope Director Dr Sarah Pearce said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's amazing to see all this work come together to give our first glimpse of the brilliant images that will come from SKA-Low, promising us a view of the Universe we've never seen before," she said.</span></div></div>