World-first images show what the universe would look like if humans could see radio waves

The world’s first pictures of the universe in radio technicolour have been produced using a $50 million radio telescope in the Western Australian outback.

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This has been a long time coming.

I’ve been waiting for a night vision camera that displays true colours. But displaying radio astronomy data in true colour is good, too. I wonder why it’s taken so long, radio telescopes have been able to see in multiple wavelengths almost since the first ever radio telescope in the 1930s.