The Owens Valley Long Wavelength, a new array of radio antennas in California, has been geared up to capture some of the unseen pulses of radio light waves in the night sky. The new radio telescope array aims to get signals from flaring stars, flashing planets and other unusual objects in the night sky.

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Gregg Hallinan, the principal investigator of the Owens Valley Long Wavelength and assistant professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said that the new telescope enables to see the entire night sky all at once and can take instantaneous image of everything, according to Astronomy Now. The radio telescope array might as well collect data on the traces of radio light from the very first stars and galaxies.

The new radio telescope array can monitor extrasolar space weather which is the interaction between the nearby stars and the orbiting planets of those stars. Also, the report added that the measurements of the interactions in other systems of star could discover new information on the strength of planetary magnetic fields and their potential of harboring of life. It is worthy to note that magnetic fields are factors in life development on our planet, which gives protection from perilous radiation and other particles.

The new radio telescope array's station in California is made up of 250 low-cost antennas where each of it is about 3 feet or 1 meter in size. "Just as the antenna of your car radio can detect local radio stations no matter where they are around the car, these antennas can detect signals anywhere in the sky," astronomer Joseph Lazio from JPL.

While there is a hope that the new radio telescope array can detect traces of radio light from the very first stars and galaxies, the array can be a place for astronomers to research on space weather like the auroras, which took place when stars released magnetic energy, Engadget reported.

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