Image: the radio sky using the GLEAM 'gold' dataset, taken with the MWA telescope. Credit: Natasha Hurley-Walker (Curtin/ICRAR) and the GLEAM team
The Murchison Widefield Array is a radio telescope, made of 4,096 spider-like antennas tuned to receive signals from the sky between 70 and 300MHz. Since its launch in 2013, the MWA has collected tens of petabytes of data which are sent over dedicated fibre and the National Broadband Network to the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre in Perth. From there, the data are accessed and analysed by hundreds of researchers from around the world using the All-Sky Virtual Observatory.
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