The DREAMS telescope will help find colliding neutron stars. Image: NASA
The DREAMS telescope will help find colliding neutron stars. Image: NASA - A new infrared telescope, to be designed and built by astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU), will monitor the entire southern sky in search of new cosmic events as they take place. DREAMS - the Dynamic REd All-Sky Monitoring Survey - will be located at the historic Siding Spring Observatory in northern New South Wales. The telescope will be used by researchers all over the globe and propel Australia to the forefront of the emerging field of transient astronomy - the study of cosmic events almost in 'real time'. Lead researcher Professor Anna Moore, Director of the ANU Institute for Space (InSpace), said a transient survey of the southern sky in the infrared had never been done and would help find many hidden treasures in the Universe. "DREAMS will allow us to 'see' the Universe in an entirely new way," Professor Moore said. "Infrared telescopes can study dusty and distant regions of space that are impenetrable to optical telescopes, unveiling new stars, nebulae, mergers, galaxies, supernovae, quasars and other sources of radiation new to science.
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